SALE OR LIQUOR RESTRICTION BILL
To the Editor. Sir,—Now that the Sale of Liquor Restriction Bill is in circulation it is open to criticism, I suppose, I certainly object to tlie hour of closing therein provided. After so large a number of people petitioned for 0 o'clock it is certainly not a popular or democratic proposal to put the closing hour at 8 p.m. However that may be amended in committee. What I here very strongly object to is the last clause dealing with tlie "duration of the Act." It is there set out "during the continuance of the present war with Germany and for six months thereafter, and no longer." To these last three words most emphatic objection should be raised, and at once, so as to have those words omitted or altered. It would be only reasonable that at the end of the six months after the war, and when the public have had a trial of the earlier closing that tfie reversion to 10 o'clock should not take place until the is9ue is first put before the people by means of a referendum—"Shall we continue the early closing or revert to 10 o'clock."—l am, etc., GEO. H. MAUuVDER.
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Taranaki Daily News, 17 September 1917, Page 6
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