EARLY CLOSING IN VICTORIA.
A new licensing law, requiring all hotel and club bars to be closed at (i p.m., came into operation in Victoria on October 25th. Formerly rhe liquor trade was conducted between fi.3o a.m. and 11.30 p.m., and special permits for later trading were given in certain cases. In July of last year (he period for trading was reduced to from 0 a.m. to 0.30 p.m., and under the intoxicating Liquor (Temporary Eestrietion) Act, the period has been further reduced to from 0 a.m. to 0 p.m. The position of those in residence at hotels and clubs, whom the law detines as “lodgers,” has not been altered. The bars of hotels must ho closed and locked; but “soft” drinks may be sold on the premises, (he onus resting on persons discovered by the police on licensed premises after hours of proving that they are not there to obtain intoxicants. The Government; proposes to introduce a Bill providing compensation for holtekeepers affected by the early closing.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1634, 7 November 1916, Page 4
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168EARLY CLOSING IN VICTORIA. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1634, 7 November 1916, Page 4
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