1 JUNE 1929, Page 19

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Mr. Barwell says that

under the Bishop of Liverpool's Bill citizens can only exercise their option one way, i.e., in decreasing the number of licences. This is not correct. He further says that the citizens could probably only vote on decreasing the hours in which the public houses might be open. If by this he means the daily hours of opening and closing, he is entirely inaccurate. The Bill contains no such Liquor (Popular Control) Bill, 416 Abbey House, Westminster, S.W.1.