SELLING DRINK TO CHILDREN.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 158, 26 June 1886, Page 3

SELLING DRINK TO CHILDREN.

_ _ _ _ .jits... — — — Mh Fish Kit, Member i'oi Wellington, has introduced a Dill, forbidding under heavy penalties, Iho sale of intoxicating- liquois to childion apparently under 13 years of age. The Act states as follows : — "Any licensed peison who allows to be supplied in his licensed premises, by purchase or otherwise, 'my desciiption whatever oC spirits, or oC wine, ale, beer, or porter, to any peison app.ticntly under tho ago of tliii teen )eais of either sex, .shall, as well as the person who actually gives or supplies tho spirits, wine, alo, boor, or porter, bi liable to pay a penalty not exceeding ten pounds foi every such offence, to be recovered in tho manner in which penalties aie recoverable under the provision-, of " Tho Licensing Act, 1881." Upon a conviction for a first oilonco against tho preceding seotion tho convicted person, if licensed, shall bo liable to have his license suspended for bjx months ; and, in case of a second or any subsequent offence, ho shall be liable to forfeit his licen&e, and the premises in ies|vet of which such license is granted shall bo liable to bo declared disqualified for a period of not le^s than two years nor exceeding live years." We tiust so useful a measure will become law, and if time permitted wo feel sure petitions recommending tho adoption of some such law, would bo signed by thousands. Every right thinking man and woman must admit the need of some act of this kind, so that children of tender yeais shall not be exposed to the temptations oC the public house ; as so frequently is the case at present.