The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 1881.
Wx are quite prepared to give the Thames Licensing Bench credit for what its Chairman yesterday claimed it had effected, naitely, the improvement in accommodation of pnblic houses. The stringency of the Commissioners last year in closing several houses, though it operated harshly and unfairly on the owners of the properties, has had the effect of making hotel keepers, who had been in the habit of sailing too close tojthe wind, more careful about committing breaches of the Licensing Act. The same reason deterred many publicans from supplying liquor to men already the worse for drink, and here no doubt; is in a great measure due the decrease in convictions for drunkenness. We do not fall in with the theory that the closing of a few hotels will materially decrease the sale of liquor in the district —if a man wants his beer he does not mind going » few hundred yards farther
than he has been wont. Yet, howeTer the results mentioned by the Chairman have been brought about it is a matter for congratulation.
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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3882, 8 June 1881, Page 2
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188The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 1881. Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3882, 8 June 1881, Page 2
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