Second Edition.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 28 June 1911, Page 3

Second Edition.

Australian Licensing; Matters MANY HOTELS CLOSED. £200,000 COMPENSATION [by blkctric telegraph—copyright.] LPBH PBEBS ABSOCUTION.j (Received This Day, 9.30 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. The Licenses Reduction Board is closing seven further hotels in Melbourne. Since the Board was created 002 'hotels lmve been closed, and compensation, amounting to £194,989, has been paid. At a meeting of the Board', the chairman .made ft comparison of the system with local option, and pointed out that, in a similar period under the latter, 'New South Wales closed three hundred n.ndl thirty eight hotels. :It was estimated by 1914 Victoria would ck/?;:> 800, and New South Wales 425. Under local option there was a tendency, he added, for overstocked districts to vote continuance.