LICENSING ELECTIONS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8049, 14 February 1906, Page 2

LICENSING ELECTIONS.

A POSSIBLE COMPHOMISE. A meeting of the Council of the Churches was held on Monday night to consider tbc recommendation made by Ihe Borough Council Works Committee Unit some compromise should be arranged between the Council of Clun-lies and Licensed Victuallers' Association in order Unit the Borough might lie saved the expense of an election. The Churches' Council discussed the uroposal at length, and eventually the following resolutions were carried, and will be forwarded to the Borough Council : That in order to avoid the expense of a contested election, the Council of the Churches suggest that live candidates only be nominated to serve on the Licensing Committee: the terms of such Humiliation to be as follows:—

The maintenance of the present system of closing the hotel bars at 10 o'clock. The proportion of members serving on the Committee to bo as decided by the electors at the poll taken on March 26th, 1903. The Council suggests the nomination of Messrs Walter Auibury, J. B. Council. Stanley Smith. J. S. McKellur, and W. L. Newman, as a committee thoroughly representative, and which may be relied upon to administer the Licensing Act with justice and impartiality.