The Licensing Question.
The member for Heathcote, Mr Tanner, has compiled the following interesting information from the various Parliamentary papers on the subject during the last 13 years • —ln 1879 the number of publicans. licenses issued in this colony was 1542 ; in the licensing year from July 1891, to June 1862, the number was 1431, there being a decrease of 111. In 1879 there were three New Zealand wine licenses granted ; in 1892 the number was seven. In 1879 there were in existence 72 accommodation licenses and 58 bush licenses ; later on the bush licenses disappear altogether from the returns, but in 1892 the number of accommodation licenses is given at 240. Tho bottle licenses, confined to Otago and Nelson, dropped from 213 in 1879 to 56 in 1892. Th© wholesale licenses numbered 248 in 1879, and 137 in 1892. Conditional licenses are only once mentioned in the papers, viz, in 1886, when 657 were issued. Although the total number of licenses is now considerably smaller the amount of revenue derived therefrom has increased 50 per cent, from £40,376 in 1877-78 to £60,299 in 1891-92. This money is paid over to the various local
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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 74, 25 September 1893, Page 3
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194The Licensing Question. Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 74, 25 September 1893, Page 3
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