THE LICENSING BILL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10114, 8 October 1910, Page 5

THE LICENSING BILL.

INTRODUCED BY GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE,

SOME OF ITS PROVISIONS.

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Last Nig it.

The Licensing Zct Amendment Bill was introduced in the House tonight by Governor's Message. fair Joseph Ward explained that the Bill provided for a system of voting, under which a vote for or against National Prohibition could be taken upon a basij of a 55 per cent, majority. Two istuej only would be placed before the electors, namely, national prohibition and local piohibition. ihe vote in favour of the former would also count in favour of the latter. In the event of national prohibition being carried, it would become operative in four years. - At the end of that time, liquor shall not be imported, manufactured, or sold in New Zealand. If local No-License is carried, it will come into force in one year after .the date of the poll. 'lhe half-poll necessary under the present Act is repealed, and every vote cast at a general election will count for or against national prohibition. No liquor shall be sold to any person under twenty-one years of age. Ihe employment of barmaids snail be re-.tricted to those registered on a roll made after the coming into operation of the Act; but this will not apply to the wives and daughters of occupiers of hotels, or to females who conduct hotels on thair own acccunt. a number "of other alteration* ere proposed under t..c Bill, including / one providing that the prohibition vote in cities shall not be taken in individual electorate?, but the district 1 shall be grouped. 'ihe i ill was read a first time.