LICENSING REFORMS. THE PREMIER AND THE GOOD TEMPLARS. Dunedin, April 15.

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LICENSING REFORMS. THE PREMIER AND THE GOOD TEM PLA RS . Duned in, A p ril 15.

Jn lenly to a deputation of Good 'IVnipLu-, ;i-kin<^ tor <iii amendment of the Uci'tiMti^ Act and tlio Railway Act, the I'iemier .-aid he thought it quite icasoiiable tliat tlu: supply ot hquoi to children .should be pio hibited. lie could not, liohch'l, pledge him-elf to incut- in that direct ion tin-. session. Regarding the mil way licenses he thought e\eiy pof-sible piovwon ■would bo made to rc^tnet the supply of lujuoi .it stations to tra\ellei>, but they had no moral right to say that a man vrho wished a #lasi of beer should not ha\ c it. He could liardlj concene any casein which a club licence should be granted to a house which had been refused an ordinary licont-e. The Government had no intention of propo.-injr the establishment of distilleries, but heuas Jiot prepared to commit himself to the extent of saying that f>uch a proposal mi^ht not come to be made. After the experience of pa-t yeaih, howevei 1 , he did not fancy it would be countenanced by the Hou-e.