LICENSING REFORMS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9347, 16 January 1909, Page 5

LICENSING REFORMS.

Per Press Association. Auckland, January 16. A meeting of Auckland brewers, wine and spirit merchants and the Licensed Victuallers’ Association, representing all the wholesale trade and nearly every member of the retail trade, held yesterday, was characterised by much earnestness. It adopted unanimously resolutions embodying the following reforms :-- 1. Abolition of barmaids. It is proposed to keep a register of all barmaids at nresent employed in the City of Auckland, and employ hereafter none except those whose names are on such register. 2. Abolition of private bars when nresent leases expire, except in the case of a lengthy period when a special date is to be fixed. 3. Raising the age limit at which youths can be served with liquor in hotels from 18 to 20 years. ; 4. No woman to bo supplied with drink for consumption on the premises unless she is a boarder.