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THE PERMISSIVE BILL.

In Christchurch the following memorial has been adopted for presentation to the Assembly ;

“ Your petitioners, with the view of removing and preventing the degrading vice of drunkenness and its attendant evils—a vice which leads men and women to neglect their duty to their homes and families, to society at large, nay, even to their God—earnestly and humbly pray your Honorable House to order to be prepared and to pass into law a Bill embodying the principle contained in a Bill brought into the House of Commons by Sir Wilfred Lawson, and which is commonly known as ‘ The Permissive Bill.’ The principle which your petitioners desire to be passed into law, affirms that the adult inhabitants, men and women, of any given district shall have the power by a majority of two-thirds of prohibiting the issue of any license for the common sale of intoxicating drinks within such district, with a proviso preserving any rights or privileges conferred or enjoyed by virtue of any license current or in force at the passing of the Permissive Act during the currency of such license j and also allowing the sale of methylated spirits for use in arts and manufactures, and the side of alcoholic liquors for medicinal purposes ; such liquors to be sold only on the production of a certificate under the hand of a legally qualified medical practitioner of the Colony.”

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https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ESD18710328.2.12

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Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2531, 28 March 1871, Page 2

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THE PERMISSIVE BILL. Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2531, 28 March 1871, Page 2

THE PERMISSIVE BILL. Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2531, 28 March 1871, Page 2

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