The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1883.
Intelligence has been reeeired from Wellington to the effect that Ministers hare decided that in cases where ratepayers fail to elect the full number of a Licensing Committee the Government shall nominate "the Committees. This decision will render the part elections of those bodies, which hare taken place in various .portions of the colony of no value, and unless the Government regard the voice of the people by the appointment of those who have been selected by them on the various nomination days, the intention of the framers of the Act will not have been carried ont. When the Licensing Act passed the House this power was placed in the hands of the people after long and animated discussion, and one of the fundamental principles of the Act will be violated if this action of the Government be made a standing rule. Owing probably to an oversight of the House, provision is not made in express terms for the case of a number-short of that .required being nominated, yet the whole spirit of the Act would appear to any reasonable being, to point out that as much power as it was possible to give, was designedly placed in the hands of the people. The wording of the,clause alone enables the Government to take the power which it was clearly intended should be used by the ratepayer?. The provision, it must be seen, was intended only to allow any vacancies left on the committees to be filled, and that ap~ pointments made in accordance with the terms of the Act by the people, should be ■ignored, is neither just or reasonable. The only thing now left for the Government to do, if it persists in pursuing the course it stateß it will take, is, in oasea where an insufficient number has been nominated, to appoint on the various committees those persons elected by the people, and fill ftp the vacancies then left with their own nominees. This would be payiog due respect to the wishes of the ratepayers, and acting in accordance with the spirit of the Act, and the intention of those who made it law. Any other"- course pursued would be highly improper and certain to meet with universal condemnation. : .•' ■'
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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4411, 22 February 1883, Page 2
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384The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1883. Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4411, 22 February 1883, Page 2
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