LOCKERS IN NEWTOWN.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 577, 4 August 1909, Page 8

LOCKERS IN NEWTOWN.

: LICENSED BAR'NOW. A-SOCIAL CLUB. ' •.The:;locker. system.'has come to Newtown..Within' the past-few .days,- what ls -known. as the "Newtown Social Club',' has :-beeri established; 1 mth r head(juarters' at. the old Park. Hotel. . A' Doiiiiftorr reporter was informed that -the. .roll: riuinbers-;;/already /• ''forty-five member's,' all /of/whom are .'entitled , to keep liquor blockers.: m The -club .rooms « are at present iconfined'to tho ground. floor; ■ Billiards, will be played:; again -on 'the 'two hotel tables,'arid-the/front"Bar/is to'.be;converted, into . a reading ; room 1 . - • It- is proposed to organisa . ; : card;',chess, •' arid; '.draughts "i.'tourna-' : .merits;,/vffbeni: : ,th9 ;'clubv-has"^'•■increased./' in' . str'ength, Y /Thte, lbcKelrs'. are tin what '.was; once. tliii private bar, but a :completo change .is. . promised for. the.-''dive."ivlt is'soon to ,bo equipped as a gymnasium! ' ; When .first ..-introduced; -in Ashburton and Invercargill,' the locker. system was closoly investigated-by ithe pulice, who decided that . it-'wast'no-infringement of the law.- If one_ . desired to Jiave .liqunr ; ' ho would' simply. fillj ; W iue.,and spirit|| ! merfchant'for the. liquor, , and- tender' the purchase' money./ Next 'day, -if- all. went well, he would bo able to unloek his cupboard and I (treat himself and- his friends. , He might re-plenish-vthe. locker by .procuring- liquor' per- '■ licensed /district, ---but - only.- ;a :■ ,small/< quantity "'may:be/taken into an' ,un-di'ceris'ed;'area-'i,without t notification to' the ~ 'derlci'Of i '|which''.may--be l ,so ; 'iritroduced to a "dry"- elec- [ torate ■is' one 'gdTrdn'of-beerj 'and one-quart- ; of wine or spirits.' 1 If a'Newtown resident i' \{mrehased : a' local t' ;m'erchant;ihe might-call every successive day -arid -take one bottlfe'home, without being; re-: .quired-yi? / : ' _'. ; /■' ]■ •■ "It's •- a ; - I ■'.•rburiclalJo.uta , • way;/'of gettirig a drmk,'!/•■ remarked'. a; member, of.' the/ New--tow'n';,Club . procedure, was. explained v'. -however,.', the. locker. ■; system'-'is an established adjunct' to j( Ivate ■ hotels, v'.and prbprietprs ; :.mak"e consider-, j". 'able ;reyemie"ftorii "the; sale of, the non-alco-. :i iKolic. : the;.'Ne>rtbwnClub"; /■ ''bitly. j ,members',are- ; adinitted',: -arid/ cordial j are ■ reJ tailed at shop, prices. ■;;; / :