THE LICENSING ELECTION.

Te Aroha News, Volume XVI, Issue 22219, 29 March 1900, Page 2

THE LICENSING ELECTION.

The election of the Licensing Commi tee for the Ohinemuri Electorate takes place- to-day. Th ■ right to vote is on the same basis as at the General El ction,. and all whose names are on the electoral roll have the privilege of voting. Those, however, who- failed to vote at the General Election, and who have not applied for re-enrolment will find that- their names have been struck off. It is to be hoped that all who have the right will vote- to-day; especially those wh* desire- an- impartial administration of the Licer sing laws. It is eminently undesirable that a‘Trade’ Committee should be- returned ; and unless the friend’s- of impartial’ administration take the trouble to vote there is some dangerthat this may be the result of the polling. A Committee should’ be returned' ol th©6e who, while perfectly fair to the licensees, should be so free from the breivei s’’monopoly, as to be able to set the iT faces steadfastly against the needless multip’icatien of the opportunities of drinking. In instance thqi-e is no- public need' for the bars to be open after I'O o’clock,, the extra hour only affording additional nducement to the intemperate. Then a Committee should be returned that would not issue, fn the brewers’' interests, new licenses in districts where they are manifestly against the wishes of the people-.. Such a Committee, fair to licensees, yet free the brewers, and loyal-to* the wishes and interests of the-people, would be found in the five gentlemen who have been nominated as- u The People’s Committee,,”' viz.:—

William Foriiest Henry William Moore Thomas- James Stanley John Erie Taylor JfosEPii Lewis Walton