TAVERNS IN THE TOWNS
Sir.-Readers usually have reason to be proud of The New Zealand Listener, and especially of the high standard of the editorials. The recent "Living With the Bomb" was a spring of hope and sanity in our desert of fear and unreason. ; It is therefore disappointing to find the April 7 editorial, "Tavern Talk," devoted to a rather unfair complaint against another ‘editor. The Outlook paragraph quoted there with so much ‘displeasure .does not précis an /earlier Listener article, but merely refers to it as "asking for 10 o’clock closing." That would probably seem a fair description to most readers, whether opponents or supporters. The fact that a_ specific closing time was not previously mentioned does not justify a charge of misrepresentation. In this context, "10 o’clock closing" means simply the evening sale of liquor, and that is what "Taverns in the Towns" still seems td. me to advocate. Pe PSB lon The alternative précis givén’ in the ‘second paragraph of "Tavern Talk". would not do as a basis for discussion, as the key word, "reform," has no agreed
meaning. To one side it mea: progress toward universal total abstinence. To the.other side it apparently means proPress toward universal moderate drink-
ing.
M.
A.
(Palmerston N orth). |
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 822, 29 April 1955, Page 5
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