A DEPUTATION
FROM N.z. ALLIANCE. REQUESTS TO PREMIER. (By Telegraph —Per Press Association) AY ELLINGTON June 12. A large deputation from the annual meeting of the New Zealand Alliance waited upon Hon. (L AY. I‘oihes in reticence to several aspeets ol the licensing laws. ft was asked amongst other things, that the existing licensing laws should he consolidated into two sections, one dealing with the referendum and the other with regulative provisions. That the law relating to illegal trading, he more rigidly enforced. That the Minister of Customs should he empowered to refuse to grant licenses for a brewery. 'flint motorists found drunk in charge of vehicles, should he more sternly dealt with, and that Government should undertake educative work in regard to the effects of alcohol. In reply Air Forbes said it was his intention to introduce legislation next session giving the Government power to control the issue of licenses for breweries and distilleries. The Minister of Justice was endeavouring to ell fore the laws relating to the lioottr traffic.
So far as intoxicated motorists were concerned he agreed that the punishment imposed on them could not be too drastic.
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Hokitika Guardian, 12 June 1931, Page 5
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191A DEPUTATION Hokitika Guardian, 12 June 1931, Page 5
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