THE TEMPERANCE CONFERENCE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume II, Issue 372, 3 July 1877, Page 2

THE TEMPERANCE CONFERENCE.

(By Telegrai'ii, from Press Auknci J

Wellington, July; J The Temperance Conference, this ing, was well attended. Thj Bishopj Wellington occupied t.'ie chair, and ni>f a all the clergy of the place were pri>S|J| besides a large number of zens, including the Hon. the Premiu * The following is the text of the \ & tion which the Conference propose adopt for~pres<jntation to Parliament " The petition of the undersigned bitants of the Province of > * spectfully showeth that, in considei,iv«| of the acknowledged evils of inti'iinl ance, and the advanced state of opinion on the matter of prohibition Licensing Act can meet the nocessilu 4 the case, without clauses to the follow ) effect, viz. : " I. That all licensing districts slnj > far as possible, be bounded by the %i boundaries as the existing highways 1 tricts, boroughs, wards of boroughs* , other already defined areas of great dimensions. " 2. That all licensing officers shall i elected by the ratepayers. "That, on a requisition of tufrl householders in any district, it slul'S imperative on the Chief Magistrate J other authority of the district, to tak|n votes by ballot of all the adult\e<dd| in the district, in the usual cleilH manner, as to whether any license jfl or shall not be granted. (9 " 4. That, in the case of two thirffl| actual votes given being against the gjM ing of any license, no license shafl granted for the said district; nor m any district, under any circumstanccl re-tested within a less period than t| years. : "5. That no new licenses slial| granted unless the person applying such shall, in addition to complying| all the other requirements of the | furnish to the Clerk of the Court a nil rial, being in favour of such 1 icp granted, sinned by at least a ni.-ijorilj the adult residents in the district, in \v| the house for which the license is mffl is situate ; such memorial to be IoH one month prior to the date appointed the annual meeting of the Lici-'fll Officers, and to be open for public ii» tion, and genuineness of the signalH thereto to be verified on oath in M Court. _ .9

" G. That applications for licenses: be heard only at the annual ineotii the Licensing Ollicers. " Your petitioners therefore pray the laws of New Zealand may be alt in conformity with this petition, and your Hon. House may be pleased to an Act embodying the aforesaid cla in such a manner as to give them legal force and elFect."