HAPPY RESULTS.
To the Editor, —ln your Thursdays issue is a par giving the results of an interview with the inspector of police, in which lie eulogises the behaviour of the New Plymouth citizens during the Christmas festivities, and states that never in 'his 36 years' experience has he seen such general good behaviour. Just so. Did it strike either the inspector or your reporter that this is the first time in his 36 years' experience that he was in touch with six o'clock closing, and that the cause of the hulk of the disorders late iuto the night was non existent when from six o'clock onwards the people were aWe to enjoy themselves without the sorry spectacle of occasional batches of drunks coming out of the hotels, a nuisance to themselves and everybody else (the police included) ? The object lessons on the advantage of restricting t)7e evil are not long in showing themselves.—l am, etc., SOBRIETY,
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Taranaki Daily News, 28 December 1917, Page 6
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157HAPPY RESULTS. Taranaki Daily News, 28 December 1917, Page 6
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