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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 784, 30 March 1905, Page 2

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(We arc not responsibly for opinions expressed by correspondents.) THE UNFORTUNATE I'UBUCAN AGAIN'. (To the Editor.) Sir,—The remarks of the Magistrate, as reported in to-day's* News, adf) only another to the innumerable jnstnncfiS in which tho publican is unjustly attacked. Our sapient H.M. says : -'lt was- a pretty bad state of things when a respectable rnan could not g () into a "hotel in broad daylight without having property stolen from him. lip thought the attention of the licensee should be palled to it by the police. The poljce should noljci' occurrences of this kind." The a\specj,able man who was roti'bcd wentS into a bar parjour, "and fell asleep between the. hours of 10.30 an 412 noon."- Is a lj.ote)-keepcr po havj every person in every 'bar paeloup constantly watched to see that ho doesn't go to Mjeep ?Or is'lie in thp faintest degree to blame if a respectable person goon Into a hov parlour, fa'ils asleep for ono find a half hours, nnd gets ribbed by sonvc one who happens to drop into the room ? Tho thing is absurd I He would have been robbed just the same if he had slept in Ihe Courthouse or in a church, if only the thiof were at ham). —I am, eic , JNPXUifAST, JforcH 89, IVO3,