SALE OF LIQUOR

New Zealand Times, Volume XLII, Issue 9796, 20 October 1917, Page 7

SALE OF LIQUOR

RESULT OF CONFERENCE AGREEMENT AND DISAGREEMENT. Mr Massey rose at 1 o’clock in the House of Representatives this morning to give the result of tho conference between the managers for tho two Houses on tho Sale of Liquor Restriction Bill. An agreement had been arrived at, he said, on all tho clauses except 40, making provision as to persons found on licensed promises during hours when, by this Act, those premises are required to bo closed, and 4e. defining licensed promises, etc. Tho main results of the agreement arrived at were (1> that clubs were to be put on tho same tooting as hotels in regard to ofiences in connection with the sale, supply, and consumption of liquor during prohibited hours; CD that wholesale houses and brewers shall bo snowed to deliver liquor to early trains and steamers between the hours of 7 a.m. and 9 a.m.; (3) that if tho licensee abandoned the promises or surrendered his license the owner of tho premises should have the same righyt as if he were the licensee. Mr Massey moved that the Council’s amendments on which the conference agreed should bo agreed to bv the House and that a second conference should he asked for at which the managers should be the Hon. W. D. S. MacDonald, Mosers Witty and Parr and himself.

Mr Isitt objected to Mr Witty as one of the managers for tho House, saying that that gentleman was just as strong g, protagonist for the liquor aide as he himself was for prohibition.

Mr Massey said that he hnd conferred with Mr Witty on tho matter, and was quite satisfied that the hon. member would take up a perfectly fair position on the matter. Mr Isitt: “I quite accept that.”