• PUBLIC-HOUSE REFORM.
(To THE EDITOR Or TIM "SPZCT•TOR.1
8111,—As you were good enough to notice our work in 1901, we venture to report progress, and to make an appeal. The number of licensed houses controlled by us has risen in the interval from fourteen to fifty-five, paid-up capital from £5,000 to '£17,090, the maximum interest of 5 per cent. has been paid continuously since 1899, and £480 has been placed to reserve. Facilities for all-round refreshment trade have been given at all houses, in accordance with local needs, and the trade in alcoholics has not been pushed. No manager has been convicted of any offence against the Licensing Laws. As we are building a large• house at Wolverton (opposite the railway-carriage works), and are taking over several other houses shortly, we invite any of your readers who are inter- ested in public-house reform to help us by taking up shares. I will gladly send Report, application form, and pamphlet to any one who writes for them.—I am, Sir, &c.,
REGINALD GRIPE'S, Secretary, People's Refreshment House Association, Limited. Broadteay Chambers, Westminster, S.W.
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