CORRESPONDENCE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 100, 30 May 1900, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

i [Wo do not hold oursoLvea responsible for opinions expresaoa by correspondents.] ; I * I DEPUTATION OX LICENSING : . WAITERS. > TO TIIK EDITOIt. Si'i, —Tn y ■!!): iMpoi'fc of tho above, i '. -.vliich ;i|-[) i;:n'il in your issue of to-day, h ,i era :>i''.] a mi-! omissions to whi'jh 1 it,t,cntioii ;,hii Mil bo called: (i) A few in urns ai'o jjivrtn, and tho report roads ,n though tiioy wore tho only oni«> present, wii«i"-is quite 40 parsons wore ■■li'iv. ( ) Mr. Stanford stated, " II i ,'clock would only ho granted i -.o in't N io t!.e borough, there being i :i'iri'i-ii f i 'h.i i-xtension being grauted , -.0 o'! .si In tiiiunqs." (c) A.s to the .1 i-ii'.i'. o ymit L is ilrinking, our Magis-j i •!■■■• is ■ .vn-vshL-d himsttlf very much more i !. <>: ;.'i_\ qi> thia than your report would I m ! caU'. 11a uaid : "It was horrible, •. and ho \v:ib horrified to knot? that thore i were youths nud youog men m thojr.

t)wn who vav in the habit of gytting| the worse for liquor," his remarks im-' plying that liu wus aw ire of thiM, apart j from anything s.iid by the deputation, (il) Supplying drink to prohibited per-1 sons. You omit all reference to his remarks on thin, Mr. Stanford spoke of the criminality of such action, and' said there ( was something like an organised (system in our midst for supplying these pur sons. His remarks on this wore scathing, and lod ono to infer that scant mercy will bo shown by him to anyone convicted of lh< above crime. I think it necessary to call your attention to tho above.—l am, etc.,

Saml. J. Serpell, Now Plymouth, May 29th, 1900. [We refer elsewhere to the omissionn pointed out by our correspondent.—Ed. News.] THE RISING GENERATION. TO THE EDITOR, Sir, —I am much shocked to read the remarks of Judgo Edwards at (Jbristchui'ch in your issuo of to-day, and I quite agree with him that gambling is at the present time a greater growing evil than liquor. Having bei.-n in all the larger towns of New Zealand during the last six months, it astonished me very much to see with what apathy the police eeem to treat the matter of street gambling. As the same evil is taking firm rout in New Plymouth, I wish to do my little to exterminate the ovi.l. During my visit here I have on four occasions had a card handed me by two individuals, and soliciting my " patronago" by saying " same prica as the toto, ten pound limit," I da not quite understand their meaning, but I do know the same individuals never work and should be run in us vagrants if the police can only be got to do their duty. 1 am told the same thing has boen going on for two or throe years. Cannot something be done to rid your fair little town of these pests? If not, the time is very near when we shall have much tho same judicial utterance as Judge Edwards made at (Jhristchurch. —I am, etc.,

Visitor, May 29th, 1900.