PACKET LICENSES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7317, 10 June 1902, Page 2

PACKET LICENSES.

Tun Watganui Licensing Committee has taken a sensible and decided stand in regard to the licenses to sell inI toxicaung liquor held by the owners of the up-river steamers. For some timo complaints have been made that while the licensees of hotels were debarred from selling liquor to the general public on Sunday, theso river steamers wore under no such restrictions, and the state of affairs existing in consoquenee was not of tho best. At the annualmeeting of tho Committee tho other day the question was brought up, and in accordanco with the determination then arrired at, the following conditions have been drawn up en the subject:—(l) That no alcoholic liquor be sold, given or supplied to any passenger during any voyage or passage commenced and terminated on tho same Sunday, Good Friday or Christmas Day; (2) that no I

plied to any passungsv, (a) on the occi siou of any school picnic or similar excursion, (b) on the occasion of any public or private excursion when the steamer does not go beyond Ateuc and returns to AVangumii on the same dny ; (3) that no alcoholic liquor be sold, given or supplied to any nborL'imtl native who resides in AV.iiig-mui or Piitea licensing districts or on the AViingiiniii river; (1) that no alcoholic liquor be sold, given or supplied to any passenger for consumption off the steamers ; (•5) that these conditions be printed in large (yps in the English and Maori kuguages, and posted in the .saloon and bur of each steamer.