SLY GROG SELLING.

Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 457, 26 January 1869, Page 2

SLY GROG SELLING.

(To the Editor of the Westport Times. ) Sib, —Excuse me troubling you with the following few lines, as I myself am completely in a fog, but, as the song says " I cannot tell how they do it," but they do, and that is to sell grog without a license, which many parties are doing at present up here. Now, Mr Editor, you will own its a very hard case for those that pay the annual license-fees, amounting to nearly £-40 per annum, to see parties without a license open a house and stock their shelves with grog, and give public balls with impunity—some of them boasting that they have been reported and had received a letter from a friend of theirs (dressed in blue) to take, their grog from off the shelves as the police were coming. Now, Sir, I ask you what chance the legitimate trader has against them, or what advantage does he gain by paying for a license ? If the unlicensed houses are not put down by the police the only remedy left, in my humble opinion, is for the licensed victualersto form an association themselves, for the suppression of sly grogselling. Apologising for troubling you on the above subject,—l remain, Sir, A Constant Subscribes. Caledonian Terrace, Jan 21.