LICENSING MATTERS

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 849, 25 March 1903, Page 2

LICENSING MATTERS

By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, last night. The following are the districts so far as is known here in which there will be no contest for the election of a Licensing Committee :—Parnell, Westland, Eden, Waikato, Motueka, Timaru, Lyttelton, Taieri, Avon, Mauawatu, Egmont, and Waiapu.

Christchurch, last night.

John Ensack, licensee of the Royal Hotel, was fined £lO and his license to be endorsed for permitting drunkenness at the hotel. Mr Beetham, S.M., remarked that public opinion would not stand such breaches of the licensing regulations, and stated that every evil under the suu was due to the liquor business.

Dunedin, last night. At a no-license meeting held at Milton last night it was resolved on the motion of the Rev. G. B. Fraser, “ That this meeting of electors protests acainst the voiding of the licensing election by the magistrate on unsubstantial and purely technical grounds, and resolves to petition Parliament at the earliest opportunity to validate the poll, as the magistrate who conducted the recount and held the enquiry has plainly and finally declared that the required majority of three-fifths unmistakeably declared the will of the electors of Bruce, and that irregularities and technicalities should not affect the result. This meeting pledges itself to resist every attempt to get behind the poll, and to demand a free poll for a free people.”