A DEFECT.
A correspondent in a Southern contemporary points out what appears to be a rather bad flaw in the new Licensing Act. It will be remembers ed that the public were given to understand, when the new legislation was 'first mooted, that the age had been raised at which boys could be supplied with liquor, which was in future to be '2l. But the Act is very peculiarly worded, and merely provides that liquor shall not be supplied to anyone under 21 years of age "for consumption on the.premises." Thus it would appear that the law formerly in existence regarding the supplying of liquor to persons under age remains as before. Practically, there is nothing to. hinder lads or girls of tender age being supplied with liquor so long as it is not consumed on the premises. The amended legislation,, of which the Government were so proud, will thus be found to be defective in one direction where there is special need for it to be free from flaws. But under-..a system of legislation by exhaustion no other result can be expected in New Zealand.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10146, 16 December 1910, Page 4
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186A DEFECT. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10146, 16 December 1910, Page 4
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