The Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. SATURDAY, JUNE 5, 1886.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XII, Issue 1726, 5 June 1886, Page 2

Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. SATURDAY, JUNE 5, 1886.

Mr George Fisher, M.H.R., has introduced a bill prohibiting the supplying of intoxicating liquors to children. It provides that any licensed person who allows to be supplied m his licensed premises, by purchase or otherwise, any de scrip tion whatever of spirits, or of wine, ale, beer, or porter, to any person apparently under the age of thirteen years of either sex, shall, as well as the person who actually gives or supplies the spirits, ' wine, ale, beer, or porter, be liable to pay a penalty not exceeding ten pounds for every such offence, to be recovered m the manner m which penalties are recuverable under the provisions of " The Licensing Act, 1881." Upon a conviction for a first offence, the convicted person, if licensed, ihall be liable to have his license suspended for six months; and, m case of a second or any subsequent offence, he shall be liable to forfeit his license, and the premises m respect of which bug!) license is granted shal/ be liable to be declared disqualified for a period of not less than two years nor exceeding five years ; and the provisions of *• The Licensing Act, 1881," as to suspension and forfeiture of licenses issued thereunder, aqt* an to dictation 9 t thj

disqualification of licensed premises shall respectively extend and apply to cases of suspension, forfeiture, and disqualification respectively under this section, m like manner as if such provisions were, mutatis mutandis, set out at length m this section.