Evening Sitting.
The House resumed at 7.30 o'clock. The Harbour Acts Amendment Bill (Richardson) was read a second time, after a brief discussion.
The Drainage Bill was considered in Committee, and reported with verbal amendments.
THE LICENSING BILL—CLUB LICENSES. The Licensing Bill was further con sidered in Committee.
Mr Andrews moved the club license be reduced from £20 to £5, if the object of imposing a license fee on clubs was only as be understood it to be to put down bogus clubs. Then the small ones would attain their object as well as the larger ones, and it would not be such a hard ship to genuine working men's clubs. l)t Wallis opposed the reduction. Club fees, he thought, should be increased rather than reduced
Mr Bastings thought the fee should be £40.
Mr Jones concurred in this opinion. Mr Stewart thought £20 a fair average. Mr Saunders thought no license fees should be reduced, as the effect of the present legislation would be to decrease the namber of all licenses, and so increase the value of those left in existence.
The amendment was negatired, and the original sum of £20, agreed to
Later. Wellington, This day. The debate on the Licensing Bill was continued.
On the Colonial Wine License Fee £1, Mr Bastings moved that it be increased to £20. The original amount however, was carried by 36 to 17. The Packet License Fee was altered to £5 for teasels under 50 tons, and to £10 for above that tonnage. Mr Andrews moved that the Wholesale License Fee be raised from £10 to £20 which was agreed to. Mr Andrews' motion that the Conditional License Fee be not exceeding £5 per day, instead of not exceeding £30 for the same period was rejected by 26 to 24, and the original proposal was passed. Mr Tole moved to insert a Confectioner's and Eating House License at £10, to authorise the sale of liquors during certain hours to be consumed with their victuals, but it was rejected by 27 to 19.
Mr Pitt moved the insertion of an Accommodation House license fee not exceeding £20, and dwelt strongly upon the necessity for such licenses in remote districts.—Mr Fox strongly opposed it. His experience showed that accommodation houses when licensed were usually abominable dens, where poisonous liquor was sold, and shepherds and shearers were lambed down. He had seen this even in Nelson.—Messrs Pitt, Read, Sheppard, Rees, Hursthouse, and others questioned this statement, all bearing testimony to the excellent manner in which accommodation houses in the Nelson districts were conducted, nnd their great use and benefit to travellers.—Mr launders opposed the proposal, holding that such houses would be better conducted when not licensed.—Mr Dick and Mr Hall opposed the proposal as unnecessary, as special licensing districts could be made when required —Mr Pitt's proposal was carried by 33 to 11. Clause 108, as amended, was t!:en passed, and progress reported. The House rose at 120.
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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3896, 24 June 1881, Page 2
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494Evening Sitting. Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3896, 24 June 1881, Page 2
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