WHAT HOTELKEEPERS ASK

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2177, 17 June 1914, Page 7

WHAT HOTELKEEPERS ASK

!■ ]i\ LICENSING LAW., t ; (Bp Telcgraui.—Pi-ess Association.) I; . ClirlstolruEoh, June 16. At a meeting ol meinbeis. of the Pro- !: viiicial CoiHicil off tiic Canterbury ■ Licensed Trade, there being.a lull and representative _ moc-tin'?;. tte proposed : Licensing Ml. was brought up for con- . s.icforatioii, . The following resolutions 1 were earned unanimouslyfl) "That> this cfluiicil, representing the licensed ' trade iii this, district, is tirnily of opin-! ion thai no reduction should ho niacto, i by the Government- in the majority now required to carry local _ and national, • Prohibition, as any majority short of q, , throe-fifths majority would not. he a<le- ; i qua to to command substantial and moraj respect £dc_ the law. (0) That strong j . reprosefttatiion should li© nja.de to th© (iovernmeni to go d'iiieiifi the licensing . law that. "|n the event of National Pro-: bibjjion, being carried h'y a threo-fifths majority a 5 any election, .wen years shall ■Miips.o before such rote shall fake. effect., and thereby Rive, both the Trade' and iho Governmwtt sufficient time ifi adjust their business rtijd fin,men. (IV) i That, in respect to all those No-Lieonse districts, which are unable at any elee-' ti«n to iiminlttiii n tiiTeo-fifth? majority ! favourable to No-License, restoration . shall bo deewed to be iJarH'ed to the ; extent-, iif fifty per cent. of formal licenses, ai;d_ that such an amendment I be inserted ill the new Licensing Bill 'text session, (4) That copies of these resolutions he forwarded to' tho- National Defe.ni'P. Council j,t Wellington, to hi? urged upon the acceptance of the Gov- ■ iTiiment, svud that eopies be sent io 1 : every titenAe'r of Pftiiiajiienfc for the provincial district of Canterbury, with a request that tifvey take steps to lrave ; , tho said resolutions embodied into tiro (ioviirument's new Tiicr.'.isiup Bill " '