Correspondence.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3137, 23 February 1889, Page 2

Correspondence.

MAURICEVILLE.

(To the Editor.)

Sir,—-Will you please give a small space in your columns for the following ? Two or throe times the drinking (or drunken) inhabitants of this place have.endeavored to get a public house in our midst, but each time they failed,, opposition being too strong for them,. The majority of, the inhabitants have said: "We do not want a public-house." But, sir, the Government did not ask them if they wanted one, but said they should have a public-house, and one'was then established at the Railway Station, under the disguised name of Refreshment Rooms. ■• A few months after, they opened another one, three and a-half miles further along the line, under the same name. Often respectable people have been insulted by the drinking public, After a time, alcoholic drinks, were supposed to have been done away with.. But, to the astonishment of the people, it is now a sly-grog shop (or, I might say a publio one, for liquor is dispensed as usual without fear, or .restrain, It is nothing "startling, to see ; two or three drunken men staggering away from this place every day,- more especially on a Sunday; Last Sabbath a-Maori got drunk, and fell from his horse, alighting oii his head, Blood flowed from -both 6f his oyes, and lie had, to ■ be;, earned io. ; . a neighbour's house' in. a ; very sad state. Much more couldbesaid of this disgraceful Refreshment (?) Room. Are tbepolice blind to 'all*this?; No. Tlie case Elliott v. Power should have: opened their eyes; but.they caronot., This, sir, is a disgrace to the neighborhood and to the .'Government.-. Hoping I have not 1 intruded,'.,', •'.'.". :>.!..,;,'' w> 1 ; '' ; "lamVsirili!.,;: : ;;-' :: ': "■ ■ ".;,■',■•'-' •X\"'A:CpJIBESPOKi)EII v .'_