THE LICENSING QUESTION.
DRASTIC AMENDMENTS SUGGESTED. By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, last night. Addressing tfhe Auckland Provincial No-license Convention this afternoon, the Rev. James Dawson (secretary of the Alliance), urged that several drastic alterations in the licensing laws should be included in the legislative programme of the convention/file Convention should press for the deletion of Clause 18 in the 1910 Act, which required fours years' delay after national prohibition had been carried. He suggested that six months between the poll and June 30th was all the time that was really necessary. He advocated that the term "bar'' or "public bar" in section 4 of the Act should be so defined as to limit the sale of intoxicating liquor to one place, opening out on to the street. He urged that the private jar should be done away -with. The iaw should be amended making the closing hour six o'clock on live days oi the week, instead of 10 p.m., and one o'clock on the halfholiday. They should agitate for the entire abolition of barmaids and of licenses for river boats. Tue sale of wine should be confined to licensed persons, and wine-makers should only be allowed to sell to 'licensed persons. Xhe Convention should presa lor the imposition of imprisonment without the I option of fine as a punishment for sly I grog-selling. The speaker urged a legislative amendment so that a proclaimed area, which practically meant the King Country, should be brought into line with no-license districts under section 37 of the Act. This would prevent the laying-in of liquor to be ..runk by companies of men. The convention adopted resolutions demanding a ibare majority oh all polls on liquor questions, and* urging that national prohibition should come into force on June j succeeding the poll at which it is earned.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 269, 14 April 1914, Page 5
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301THE LICENSING QUESTION. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 269, 14 April 1914, Page 5
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