24 SEPTEMBER 1921, Page 16

THE NEW LICENSING ACT.

[To THE EDITOR 07 THE " SPECTATOR."'

Ste,—It is curious how little notice has been taken of what seems to me the most important provision in the new Licensing Act. At a time when the new departure proclaimed aloud in the " disappearance " of dosing hours and the statutory dis- couragement of hawking liquor must both be making more serious calls on the activity of the police, the Act has repealed Sec. 62 of the Consolidation Act, which was a kind of patent cf their authority. Can any of your readers put me right if I Jim

w rong?—I am, Sir, &c., H. LEE WARNER. The Paddocks, Siralfham, Norfolk.