The Akaroa Mail. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1882. CURRENT NOTES. PERIPATETIC GROG SELLING.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 649, 3 October 1882, Page 2

The Akaroa Mail. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1882. CURRENT NOTES. PERIPATETIC GROG SELLING.

The Magistrates express d themselves strongly on the Bench on Friday last, regarding the* granting by the Licensing Committee, of licenses to publicans to vend liquors at sales held in different parts of the country.

Clause 86 of the Licensing Acr, however,, seems to us to give the committee the power to grant a conditional license under such circumstances. It runs as follows :—

" A conditional license fchail nnlhorize the licensee, being also the hoUer of a publican's license, to sell and dispose of liquor at any fair, military encampment, races, regatta, rowing-match, cricketground, or other place of public finniKcmerit, for a period not exceeding, with any renewal or renewals thereof seven days subject to such restrictions and conditions as the persons granting the license shall think fit."

It is true that only nninsem nls are enumerated, but of coiiivo, the clause would fipi'ly to any assemblage of a harmless kind. At the same time we agree with lh" Bench in thinking care should he exercised to prevent disturbances being causal by licenses being granted in localities far distant from town. If are granted, the police should bf present in case of a disturbance taking place, not so much to quell it, as to prevent its commencement by their presence.

As to granting licenses to the Head of the Bay on important occasions, we c;in see no objection if the police are pr s"iit, and if solid as well as llinid refreshment is provi ; for it is certainly ?. place where an hotel is urgently need"d, and wh're one would always hnve becsii open, had it not been for :m extraordinary concatenation of circum-

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