NEW ZEALAND ALLIANCE

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 131, 26 February 1921, Page 6

NEW ZEALAND ALLIANCE

M ATTERS OF PUBLIC INTEREST.

At recent meetings of the executive of the New Zealand Alliance various matters of public interest were considered and resolutions were passed thereon. It was agreed to call the attention ot the police to the employment of unregistered barmaids in some hotels, to the ille-al transfer of certificates in other cases, and to urge that the law be strictly enforced. ~ “it was also resolved to call the attention of the Government to section .GO of the Licensing Act, which l lln ’to each licensed house to one bar only. The section referred to states specifically that after the grant of the license no bar beyond the one. mentioned in the license shall be opened or used on the premises. The attention of the Government is fur-, ther to be called to statements made before the Arbitration Court on Decern j 7 last and reported in the Press of Dccember 8 to the effect that there are bars all over some hotels, special bars built in every available corner, and that some hotel proprietors had- dispensed with diing rooms and parlours, and had opente bars in the place of them. The icso u tion calls on the Government to admin Ser the law, or, if need be, amend it immediately Parliament opens. ’TSs -ol^cm— to with and hotelkeepers in nO - li^ S o Ureferred the matter of accommodation leterre The by Mr. Barton (Magistrate), concerning liquor and ported in the public X s resolved 21, /were considered, and it , notice that they be brought under the notice common in license to the Mn Henry h ‘ ul .\ nn<lo nitons