LICENSING LAW

Gisborne Times, Volume LXI, Issue 9855, 7 November 1924, Page 6

LICENSING LAW

A THORNY QUESTION

|sl LI j NOT Y I'i'.r PRINTED

WELLINGTON, Nov, 0, "Ny ilio Licensing Bill loxl not yet I,ecu Circnliil.cil Mini grunt intci’esl v.-irt iMHuil'oiUcd in it lliroiij'liotiL tlio •fittiiitv> would it In' circulated durnif.' im*?" nuked Mi ,10 A. Wright (‘Wellington I4U OlirOn) ill tlio, llotl.SC! (,I !t<-j>r<:.cii»llliven L 1 morning. Mi’ S. H. Smith (Taninaki): Next

;;i 1,1 ill}' day. Tim Prime Minister: 'The? Licensing Oil! K(> I'nr him iml been printed. ;■,) |, j’, Fraser (Wellington bent nil): .iVibapx not drafted, Mr V. Isi ugstono (^'nimnnno): Never evi l he, Tim I‘riimi Minister: Yes„ it Will | he Law Drafting Office haw hoen v.'tirl.mg night am! day right up to i. hist possible moment. 'I hero V.ere only halt a down copies of the .Appropriation Mill printed hist night nnd Mini shows the rush that I tan fieeii inking place in order lo get Hills ready" lor l.’arliament. So lar j, 1,1,,, r| i imln I ion of the liill is eon,.,.,iied I am hound to say that it .i0..,i 111, t appeal to me with Iho ch:r:- (, M m so far away, with I lie licensing poll mixed Up so far with the election voii cannot move in the one without moving ill 1 lie other. With the e lei. - I ion twelve months in advance, though ol e call never ho quite sure ,i! ilc’-se I liiii;,pi, ! don’t want to stir i|, ~p m.w. lie lulded that as soon .... tin. I’uli wan drafted it would-he pul, |,..jure ("a Id net for any necessary ~11 em t ion::, mid when they had heen I, lo il v. • mill he oin Ilia led. \h- W. A. \Citeh (Wanganui) iclived that the Licensing Commitl,i'’;: report had not yet heen printed.

Mr K. I''. 11nek ley (Chairman ol ;I in Co mind lee) : I omitted to ash t tint il .Iniiild he, 'l 1,,. I’rime iM blister said Iha t lie 1.. ~ 1 I ~ i.hjeel ion to Ihe reports being t »rlll i c*l. Mi I, M . Isi 11, (( hi islehuicn - ~||t,, that if the report was ~1 III! ,‘d , ;i hell roil doer in;' I lie enlist-i t, U , , Mi , .j eommil tee some of the ■4-vii|ei:ee should he printed and e'reiiI. with d. Mr it Willy (It aearlon) : ex one ol Mr Isi it ; Then all (Mil. Prime Minister: I rea.ly had 11.. i,|,.nee in my mind. When 1 I tlio report I iueltlded the (Wide lice M; ; ie, Kiev non ed lltal Ihe icnold |,.v |,| |„(I hut expressed the opimoii 11. | i 1,,, ox per, s" of printing such a , to;,I n,;iss ol r\ ideitce was md war

..... i,..! . Mr |sil! < lulemled llial to print | lie leport without the evidence v, ,1,1.1 lo oitee.'d !mr misleading to 1t,,. |,,,!, |. He I',mud that already 1,.,-;, ! de see! ion oi the ptl-M ie tv;,-. -v'll -■ * tlie Prune Minister the IV p, nisi hi ill v ter ail the ( xtiaordm-:,-v proposal ■ made l>y the maion'.y ~ lie- eommil lee. 1 !o‘suggcste.l that ,ii. 1,., the. eonh! have a lair stale- ,.! and hoth the l <’■ end tlie evidence e'lvu'.n t ed. it XV ni|l,! f- e I: i r heller llld til li.'.XC tlie repori prii led at a I. Mr | | At mere (Nelson) : Who se, e p (,!o' eiHum dlee ? I'iiioe .Mnd-ter: Parliament. M,. P He I.a Kerelle (Awarua) pent -i.-i! again-.I tlie assumption by , .an memher tor ( lu'isl“liureli INorlh. ol an aspersion in the eommiflee (bit it wtis not in I a vor id lem - perm e reform. As a memher ol the <-iout; -1 tee he a islu'd to say that be v! n•mdv m tavor ol liven dug

Mr 1. Me.’niiiVs (Lyttelton) ob jeeleii to the report being pruited e .lined, the ovideueo. Ho was stirjon : r I that (he other side did not I-,-.it; e liiat it would he a sporting; (one-: t.i liavo hoth sides of the ease pieseuted in Hie print od document., tie e-\ed that hoth the report and ilie e> dense lie printed. Mr !', (i. Sullivan (Avon) seconded the motion.

Til,. I'-.nii' Minister regret ted that ~!i t!i.> hi-.! ikn el tlie session they i.Mniiit have a' u retched wrangle on (he li-eiising question. He thought ilia! t!’*>>■ had better drop the whole la mg I hey might drop the evidence joint (ho replugs. lie supposed I:, :-.' was a minority report. Mi Hit: No ; I was going to sug-j-c-.i, that (Imre should ho a minority i.-l'.rt prepared

■tin. | ••.••me M ’ulster: A minority report diawn up now alter the end <if the M'v.inu won'd not ho a Parliaiac a; a: o ropoN, and I don’t think it.,,, oiw,' i tlio printed docu-

; I think Hie whole thh g had l-etter he ilroppet! There have been v v, on,;,’ i-on u-ts in Hie ui'wspiqn'rs. I : -,eo the adiourument of the de-

Mr Primer: Pui’eiv there could he in ,d", lion lo printing the report nod i ■ idem o as put I’m w aril. Mr iloi'kln ■ The expense is not warm:,tod Tim i’riine Minister: They say it i . a h -,v.0 w ork . Mr }•••(• aver said it war an import:mi i u and. oxen if it dni i ost ~ p si;, ds in r,' they should have (•>,' ■ .’.a, and. tl:o repot - 1 printed. Mr Wro'.ht expressed the hope t ■' Hn- Governmott! would allow the whole oi tlio o\ idenio as well as Hie report to be printed . It might he h'l,or tor the’ 15ill. he suggested. Mr J. Md’end's (Lyttelton) said 1,, ihe.t the House would oppose ;motion to ac’jouiu the doI-,: i,> \ (Ti'.t'Olt people voted <>i', il.-., question at the poll, and he vs.is ■:■ -o Holt I hex- well' ili'SllOUs ol Laving aooess to the evidence on the t'.-.a: -, or. \ i. ; liexx many would read il • Mr .McCombs suggested that -il tin'1! c -uid not. dix ide on the quesi 'u iimt the ex idetteo bo printed, those ix he slued for the evtiU'itei' I'l'-.ue; ! rinted should vote against -i ' n-eiion before the House. Tito Government printing OiTh'o ootdd

g.xo an estimate of the cost of print.uni td.-.ix ovidem'e. V'-o Hon. d. ti. Coatos said that if Hu' ox '.donee was (trinlod when the Hill i.u.o iofc.ro the House they woo’d lane to go through the whole Hn: g again. The Hon. G V. Anderson (Minisgr. -a of tin' Gevornmont Vr.eitP.g Otiioe) se.iA that if they eonld ;; i e Idm an idea of tlie hulk < ho ex idotsoo he otxuld give an idea e ‘ Hso os >t of printing it. M, Karr: Two thoua.Mid folios. Mr said that if ho thought Hast ai'.x comutonsuraio good would iv elt isd would \ i'to for prmring the w rMo of Hu' ovtuottee. but ho was afraid Hint that would not he the case, Il' thought that it would he \ ,*v\ unfair. howx'Vi",-. to print the import without anything to balance it.’ Peso was an enormous amount of evidence, and he thought it best f;' niljetP.n the xlebate, amt drop the i aitegethev. Ois a division challenged hv Mr TMeCmed's, the motie.n to axljourn the debate was canned hv R 8 votes to VI,