SATURDAY NIGHT LARRIKINS.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 8, Issue 27, 2 April 1907, Page 4

SATURDAY NIGHT LARRIKINS.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—The attention of the Police has, on several occasions, through the columns of the Guardian, been drawn to the larrikinism prevalent in Havelock after the closing of the hotels on Saturday nights. If the hotelkeepers comply with the requirements ot the Licensing Act then we are forced to the conclusion that there is some den in the town where certain imbeciles—as deficient in brains as an oyster, and with a thirst which it appears to be impossible to satisfy, judging from the number of empties strewn about the streets on a Sunday morningcongregate, and with their combined talent, stimulated by their potations, cannot devise anything better, or worse, than puerilities that might serve to amuse idiots not gilted with the perception of the difference between right and wrong, and whose very infirmity in that respect renders them irresponsible for their actions. It is, however, high time that the attention of the Inspector of Police in Wellington was drawn to the apathetic way in which these matters are viewed, and high time, also, that law-abiding citizens should be able to retire to rest with a feeling of security, and not, as at present, with an uneasy feeling of something intangible impending calculated to murder sleep. The perpetrators of the asinine acts complained of are but few in number, and could be easily located by the Police.—l am, etc., Citizen.