IS WINE PROHIBITED?

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 14, 10 February 1909, Page 2

IS WINE PROHIBITED?

IN NO-LiCENSK AREAS. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, .Last Sight. In connection with the Wellington message to the effect Unit the Government's legal adviser has expressed the opinion thai selling wine within a nolicense district appears to be illegal, the statement is discounted bv an Auckland vilicultuialisl. Seen to-day, this gentleman .said that under the original Act the New Zealand, wine industry' was not all'ected at all. There was, he declared, a clause in that Act providing that such wine can be made and sold in a "nolicense" area, lie was certain of this point, having taken three legal opinions on it. The clause in question had never been repealed in any way. This fact seemed to have been 'overlooked by people generally, including the Government's legal adviser. 11l nnv case, he said, it would not ailed the'growers if the manufacture and sale of wine was prohibited in such districts. The bulk of the grimes grown would always be sold as table grapes, which paid better, anyhow. If the wine, industry were shut down, therefore, all the growers had to do was to grow table grapes, and with the others make unfermented wine for sale to temperance people.