THE LICENSING QUESTION.
TO THE EDITOR, Sin,—Your leader on this topis is time'y and to the point. I would like, by vour permission, *o add a few remarks on this matber. Th9re are four principal things to be considered bv those whose -duty it is to dispense licenses public convenience, public safet.v, the spirit and letter of the law, and the general trend of public opinion. When these circumstaoces are rightly locked a 1; I think it will be fern thnt thiais not a time for i»>.ero<js,iog licenses Thou again, it should be borne in mind that those who mike application for a lioeiifle do so as a niittor of private i •3Cftt'e.-.t. ar.»i for tho sake of the launey i'r.as there is io it.' People have fotiud iut that they are bett?r without liquor than with i', so iis not a necessity but a cjnstant troubls.—l am, etc., A CITIZBtf.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 114, 4 June 1901, Page 2
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151THE LICENSING QUESTION. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 114, 4 June 1901, Page 2
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