A REPLY TO MR. WRIGHT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 139, 6 July 1901, Page 2

A REPLY TO MR. WRIGHT.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —Will you allow me to make a few remarks anent Mr. Wright's letter. Mr. Wright is not quite right, as I will show. So long as the advoclt'is of liquor can conneob refreshments with litonsß tboy think they have got a g )cd cause in band, but the time bss come f-.r tlu S3 things to be divuct'd, He says that New jrlymooth p.opl t have nothing to do with tho Comm-';;.-wealth license. II that be so i' Commonwealth must be a misnßiii.ii'. No-.v Plymouth paople have to b?ar the ovil effects of licenses, and they h vo therefore, a right to siywhothur iiwy will have ' hem or not. Mr. Walguv, likj miiiy o hors, thinks that all convenioocfs and refreshment* come by means of licences, consequently those who oppose them caro nothing for tho 'rav. lling public. Whi'e Ne>v Piymou'h people me at tht ir own firesides they are considerate cf other people's welfare; ard it w.w thi-i corsiderata-th-it led them to oppose the lice&se in question. Mr. thon relates a case which, in his opinion, should h»vet weight in- granting pucli a license, mmely, a kdy wich young children, who had com# from Auckland and passed through New Plymouth,

on their way to Hawera before they could get anything to eaK" Really New Plymouth must'be a poor place for refreshment.l}. Does Mr Wright think tbat an ordinary hotel is a suitable | place for a lady with a lot of young children ? The very fact of a house being i licenstd would deb ir such parties from g'iug in. A c infejtiocer's shop with tea and cnilee rooms would s»rve the railway and chips' passengers beter fcaun a licensed house. Ho'els from various reasons ara dangerous places. We are taught in Holy Writ that when! there is a cry for bread, we should no'i i offer a s'one. Ihere is a cry for b?ds] aod meals, and they offer fi ewater. By all means let the travelling public have as far a<! prs-i le those things which are neces-aiy and beneficial.— I am, Ac, James Foetuje.