MEMBERS' AMENDMENTS

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 54, 1 September 1926, Page 10

MEMBERS' AMENDMENTS

Mr. W. D. Lysnnr (Gisborne) is proposing amendments to the Licensing Bill. He suggests the elimination, of payment of goodwill on the transference of licenses and proposes a penaltyof £500 where such a breach occurs. Provision is made also for the. appointment of inspectors to prevent and detect the adulteration of liquor, and, as well, a general inspector and sub-inspec-tors to regularly inspect licensed: promises. Another clause suggests that it should be lawful for the chief police officer of tho district to grant a special permit with regard to the extension of hours during which liquor may be consumed on club premises on speical occasions. . „ A provision in tho Licensing :Amondmeiit Bill is to the effect that if. the proposal for a referendum to decide whether there should be three-year or six-year licensing polls ia carried, the poll shall not bo taken earlier than the second General Election held . thereafter. Mr. D. G. Sullivan (Avon) has circulated an amendment which he proposes to move to this clause in,Coinmittee. His amendment is in :the form of the following addition: "Provided always that if not less than six.months boforo the day fixed for any General Election a petition signed by not less than one-tenth of the total, number of electors on the Parliamentary rolls of the Dominion shall be presented to the Governor-General praying that such licensing poll shall be taken .on that day, then and in every such ease ' such licensing poll shall be so taken, anything to the contrary herein contained notwithstanding.' '