THE LICENSING BILL.
Mr. Malcolm did very well in getting a division on his Bill to amend the Licensing Act in the direction of reducing the majority required to carry local option and Dominion r.vohibitiou from sixty per cent to fifty-five, per cent of the votes cast. Very wisely he advised his supporters not to talk, and this policy, assisted no douht by the promise, of the Pkime Minister that the Government would afford facilities for testing the opinion of the House on
the question, enabled a division to be taken on the first occasion that the Bill came forward for consideration. The Licensing question being treated as a non-party issue, Mit. Malcolm found supporters and opponents on both sides of the House, but whatever may be the feeling in the country thcro is little room for doubt that in tho present Houso the feeling is strongly in favour of retaining the law as it stands. The amending Bill was rejected by a majority of ten votes, a larger majority than was generally expected, _ and in the circumstances there is little hope of any change in the law before the next licensing poll is taken.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1514, 9 August 1912, Page 4
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195THE LICENSING BILL. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1514, 9 August 1912, Page 4
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