LICENSING LAWS

Evening Star, Issue 24289, 2 September 1942, Page 4

LICENSING LAWS

TIGHTENING UP ENFORCEMENT (Special.) WELLINGTON, Sept. 2. A further development in the tighten, ing up of the enforcement of the licensing, laws is the Auckland report that the police have been around the clubs forbidding liquor sales after 6 p.m,\ The large number of reports of prosecutions in various centres confirms the report that the police have received special instructions throughout New Zealand to enforce a strict compliance of the licensing laws as recently amended by regulation, this activity applying to chartered clubs as well as to those illegally selling liquor. The • police make it clear that the clubs must only sell during hotel hours, starting at 10 a.m., while the two hours closing on Saturday afternoon also applies to clubs. >, ■ The official attitude towards night clubs is clear from recent prosecutions, and the police are giving attention to reported abuses of the locker system, where individual members’ supplies in club lockers are utilised for evasion. Recent official pronouncements suggest that if. as a result of the present police drive throughout the Dominion, the law is found defective in any respect, cither in driving sly grog-sellers out of business or in enabling those Wally entitled to dispense liquor to evade the spirit of the law, further Government action will be taken. 1