ELECTORAL BOUNDARIES AND LICENSES.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1476, 26 June 1912, Page 4

ELECTORAL BOUNDARIES AND LICENSES.

an mxiioN PKOMISE. £££. i 'tfiinc'3o- hotels'which 1 were;-inciudcdfiri-'""dry";'.districts' in varuous". New Zealand , as t.lio • isfult. of: the: reari-jngcr-oni of electoral. . 'boundaries. last yeaiy-.will;- lose their li- ■ census. A deptHr.uon, consisting of people • •intviW.f'd in' the affected hotel proper- > ties'*. Audi of;'rosidoiits in. the districts, '\witcd"upouthe Prime Minister (the Hon. IViMtickeuzic) yesterday - to' ask for relief? by;'legislation, l ; which would' provide ' for/ the 1 ? retaining: of ;,the licenses, or _for. .■.tiieipaymeiit'.'pf..someA compensation., Tiio represented ■■ were -Porirua; and ''Tuhawtii'mii,'.'formerly; hi Otaki, b\tt now Waitakij- ior- . fmerly-ten.".miles'■< within. the'' -.Chalmers . ibouniia'ry.Sbut.-.now: a quarter'of-, a jnilo' insideifthe Oatuaru'district limits. ■ I S.IR-th'e'iabseuco'-.of 'Mr;-' ,W.. ll'.- p.. Belli-, "nicniboi- toi- \V-plii li.'jloii Subi-rbs.' Ml'.- A. LS'llerdmun^JhP.;: introduced; the -depu-; ■ tiitionS'Sii')■; Mr. A. Kiml, of' Pahautainu, spoKe at> fiongtU ti show- that the people-,.iiit creslcd vwould^sufl'crfrom■.■'a-'-innnitest" iniuslico by the closing of. the hotels. He ruiorred. fa'iso to' a>,-lettor " the.r then 'Prime-; Minister; (Sir Joseph? M ard). beIforiSUast. election" ttfMr.lJ.'K' Fitzseraia, Awlunwait. contesting; the; Suburb- seat., in : -t!ie';(iovenunent .interest® -This* letter; ho ■ : said;. ; contained v. what . was...,in./ ehect. -:a proniiso- tl'.at the Government-"woiml :n----itrochm-legislation;, giving ■ soinr relief,. to vp'eonlo'.. ; '.who; , .wero-\:adverselykatTecteci by Hbo?altwhtion • of' licensimplxrauaanos. He ■-statMl'i-tiiat'^ljeforof'tlu?:election several people iuid'-soeiv tiie letter, but after the 'ielwlion.iMrriiF.itwerald; had ' refused to imud it over..either. to 3ir. Bell, or to the people m-?t : conceriicd, saying that l.e had- wo;:'requested by the writer not. ■ to do >o. .What the' deputation now nskc;l' v.-:;;' liu't same legislation'. should' bo ■■ intnuUiceiUin terms of .the lirnniisc given, ; '. :;,Tlisj Prime Minister said: that as the licenses expired on June :!0,. and Parlia- ! mein opened on June 27, iilicL-Govevn-not;hayc';s.limoito f introduco' n : Pili -iii'to aiir-w 'the., licenses, to ' continue:.' H<: l.cwever, that ..the I -'iiUeratibufiorvthe- botiu'dario?-gave 'rise' to i %nib -iiijustieo ami ho ; bri«i?;|:te Jiintter, l)efori! Cab-- •' ■'ii^et ;^■np(on^c.-^;^l^o^v.;Q^^ld>.l.<:t■v.Ulo ;i-' Y ,i ioii-/lib.vp;'fin '■ o'ar 1 y-; rr-pito .Cabinet's ;'-;dccis?on. ;on'Mhe:'!i]a(ter.-'^.;A^;v;;v^: