THE LICENSING POLL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVI, Issue 4900, 9 November 1925, Page 2

THE LICENSING POLL.

IF RESTORATION IS CARRIED., POSITION IN OHINEMURI. In view of the general belief that restoration of licenses in the Ohineinuri electorate is practically aissureci, many questions have been asked as to the procedure to be followed before the bars will be opened. The Licensing Act, 1920, provides that the determination of the electors shall come into force on .the expiration of three months fr,om the date of the poll, namely, on.'February 5, 1926. This does not mean that licenses will necessarily be restored immediately after that date. It will then be necessary that a Licensing Committee shall be constituted for the district, comprising five elected members, with a magistrate as chairman. The committee shall, meet in the month of June to consider applications, and such licenses as are granted shall take effect as from July, 1926. In considering applications for publicans’ licenses not more than one such license shall be .granted for every’ complete five hundred electors in Ohinemuri district ,at the date of the general election at which the poll was taken, and shall not be less (unless the number of applications is fewer) than one for every complete thousand electors of the district. As the number of electors remaining on the roll on Wednesday last was 7638 the number of publicans’ licenses to be granted may, in .the discretion of the Licensing Committee, be not less than seven nor more than fifteen for the Ohinemuri electorate.