THE "SHOUTING" PRACTISE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9576, 24 August 1909, Page 7

THE "SHOUTING" PRACTISE.

Rome time ago New Zealand had some sort of Anti-Shouting League whose chief aim was to reduce the popularity 01 the phrase, "What'll you have?" or "What's yours?" said to be common in hotel bars. The movement designed to kill the practice of "shouting" has died down here, l»ut brethren of the JNew Zealand anti-shouters have accomplished something in America. The "Municipal Journal and Engineer" of New York reports tha? the Town Council of Hammonton, New Jersey, lias undertaken to wipe out A he prac tice of "treating." At a recent meeting of the Council, which has the power of issuing liquor licensee, "Cotnjilman Skinner, who desires the Republican nomination for Mayor next fall, introduced amotion wnich &et forth that the hotelkeepers of the town are permitting and allowing a practice in their hotels which is commonly known as 'treating,' and which is detrimental to the citizeus of the town, and therefore should be abolished. A resolution was adopted, stating that all hotelkeepers holding a liquor license shall not allow the practice of treating to continue in their hotels, and that any person consuming drinks must pay for them himself, and that the hotelkeepers shall wit accept money from any other person than the consumer himself," It is mentioned that " lawyers commenting on the Council's action declared that that body should have requested the hotelkeepers to abolish the treating nuisance, but has no authority to command them to do so, and at the same time hang a threat over them for failure to comply with the resolution."