Proposed Amendments of the Licensing Bill.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 61, 6 September 1894, Page 3

Proposed Amendments of the Licensing Bill.

[PSK PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Wellington, Sept. 5 At a meeting of the temperance party in i be Hou»e this morning the following recommendations of the subcommittee re alterations in Licensing Bill were ■greed to :— Bellamy's onlj to exist with the content of both House* ; proposed that the committee be Btruck oat in favor of an elective one with the Magistrate as chairman ; present prohibition in native districts to be maintained; club licenses to be granted by the committee ; eleven o'clock extension to be struck out ; voting paper to be simply "tail license, redaction, no license; prohibition vote to be added to reduction; separate vote to be taken for national prohibition ; conditional licenses struck out; prohibition for licenses in special district where populatiou iacreaoet struck out ; license fees to be paid into the 'reasury and to be paid back to the local bodies a* subsidies pro rata according to the population; barroai <s not to be employed ; provision for half -holiday to be inserted; giving liquor after hours as • wall as selling to be an offence; supplying children with liquor to bean offence; the provision for photographing prohibited persons was struck out, and new clauses ordered to be drafted dealing with tied houses, closing hotels on election days, and making a re* duction of at leßSt 33 per cent. IF YOU Wish to secure the benefit of good health and be rid of indigestion, use Crease's Taraxacum or Dandelion Coffee, for it is a perfect cure. Sold everywhererc.