THE LICENSING BILL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 21, 13 June 1914, Page 4

THE LICENSING BILL.

lIOTKLKKEPJJHS MAKE OKSTIOXS. '' By Telegraph—Press Association. ' Timaru, Last Night. \ t At the inaugural meeting of the Boutb i Canterbury provincial council of th» licensed v ictuallers of this district, the anticipa t« <! provisions of the new Licens- ■. ,n n Bill were discussed, and several w-'r-solutions were passed to be forwarded to the CovpTTiment as amendment* to '• the Bill. These resolutions were: A Tlmt no alternative be made in the nut»:|B jority necessary to carry national pro-Hl hibition, as anything less than a three* 1! fifths majority could not command the- \ moral support of the people; that thr * time for giving effect to local no-licens*'' be extended to the same period as in the case of national prohibition;- that ] provision should bo made in the new yi Bill for the restoration of licenses tohotels that lost tlieir licenses, not oil the voto of electors, but through altera- . tion of electoral boundaries when (as- S has been the case locally) such v hotels* are again included in a licensed district ->■ through subsequent alteration of the boundaries; that at leftst fifty per cent. of licenses should be restored in nolicense districts when the no-license vote . i therein falls below the three-fifths ma-"' jority. ' . . ■ : rj Mefnibers pointed out that the prohibition vote in none of the South Talimil ! no-license districts had maintained its. original three-fifths majority strength,, showing that these districts had sonaback upon their first resolution, and were therefore entitled to a measure of. licensing.