VINE GROWING.
We have a topsy-turvy way of legislating for the good of the people in this Dominion. No better instance of this is to be found than in the licensing laws of the country. These are so beautifully mixed, and so full of anomaly as to make them almost a laughing stook. Take, for instance, the absurd provision by which a brewery may continue to operate in a No-.|. lioenw are*, while a vintage is gro-
hibited. We are told in the reports of the Agricultural Department that vine-growing can bo carried on with profit in many districts of the Dominion, But in our wisdom, or lack of wisdom, wo frame laws which crush the vine-growing industry out of existence. Cao anybody, in his senses, assert that a wine-cellar is more injurious than a brewery? The law says that it is and that is the end of it, eo far as vine-growing is concerned. But where is the sense in it all?
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 5 September 1913, Page 4
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163VINE GROWING. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 5 September 1913, Page 4
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