HOTEL HOURS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3191, 15 September 1917, Page 6

HOTEL HOURS

REGKET EXPRESSED AT GOVERNMENT ACTION. • By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, September U. A large meeting of citizens to-day carried the following resolution: lnat bhis meeting of business men exprest'eß surprise and regret at the failure of the Government to discharge its plain duty and Rive effect to-the almost universal demand for 6 o'clock closing; further, to call a public meeting in the iowii Hall to make further representations to tlie Government in favour of the adoption of I lie recommendations of tbo Efficiency Board in reference to the liquor trade. BUSINESS MEN'S RESOLUTION. At a representative meeting of business men which was hold in Wellington yesterday the following resolution wis carried " unanimously :-"That as b'wness men we. along with other sections of tllft community, protest against the attempt , which if. being made to thwart the penpic in their demand for the six o clock closing of liquor, bars, such attempt bein B manifest thi-oii«li (he .Viitionnl Government bringing downn Bui wnh the hour of 'eight , Inm-ted'a*. Ilio- c>i*ing hour. We reaffirm cur .'»ma!i-I fo; six o'clock.closing as a nuninv.im, or 11. tho alternative.-. refor<-nfl.im «n t!io recommendations of the Lificiency L<wrcl.