DUNEDIN LICENSING COMMITTEE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9104, 2 June 1908, Page 5

DUNEDIN LICENSING COMMITTEE.

DUNpDIN, June \. At the' annual meeting of the Dunedin Licensing Committee, Mr Widdowspn, S.M., read a report from the Police Inspector and SubInspector as to women and youths drinking in hotels made at the special request of the Bench. Women certainly could be seen going in hotels with jugs or bottles, paid the report, to procure liquor for home consumption, but it was extremely rare to see women in hotels consuming liquor. There were instances where young men just over eighteen had been arrested in a condition of drunkenness, but the hotel-keepers generally appear anxious to prevent juveniles from frequenting licensed premises. A practise was for young fellows to procure liquor in hotels for consumption and drink the contents in the street. The Chairman said that the Committee were of opinion that hotelkeepers ought not to permit young men who had been drinking at their bars to get liquor to take away with them. The practise should be discontinued. Bottle license-holders should recognise that it was against the law to supply young persons with liquor even though in bottles. All renewals and transfers were granted.