LICENSING REFORMS.
The results of the inquiry by a Parliamentary Select Committee into the licensing laws of New Zealand will no,t be authoritatively known until the House meets, but it has become known that the Committee, during the recent meetings, went very thoroughly into some of the causes of complajint against the licensing system. Its members are reported to be concerned with other evils which arise out of the .sale of goodwills, which in the opinion of some of them, is responsible for much of the abuse of /the licensing laws cwing to the necessity of each succeeding tenant to go one better than his 1 , predecessor in the way of turnover,, otherwise the high goodwill, based on consumption of liquor, cannot be sustained. The Committee- will make an attempt to .devise a system for abolishing trafficking in goodwills. This is an old problem, bound up with the question of tied houses, and it will be interesting to see how it is proposed to solve an admittedly difficult question. It is also- probable that Parliament will be recommended by the Committee to previse the licensingfees for hdtels, so that they will pay more in propor.rion to their bar area and opportunities for sale of liquor.
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Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 727, 2 May 1922, Page 4
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205LICENSING REFORMS. Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 727, 2 May 1922, Page 4
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