[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Miss Wilmot, on behalf
of the " Committee to Support Legislation on the lines of the Oxford Liquor Popular Control Bill," denies my statement that under the above Bill citizens have no power to exercise their option either to increase the number of licences or the number of hours during which public houses may remain open for supplying liquor. The Bill proposes that citizens can only vote for : (1) No change, (2) Reorganization, (3) No licence. The first and third of these sections obviously give no opportunity for a vote to increase either the number of licensed houses or their hours of sale, while the second deprives the general public, in the area in which the voting takes place, of any further voice whatever in the question, but puts the whole matter out of .popular into bureaucratic control.
Will Miss Wilmot kindly inform your readers on which clauses in the Bill she has based her contradiction of my state- ments ?—I am, Sir, &c.,
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