LIQUOR LAW.

Wairarapa Age, 5 March 1927, Page 5

LIQUOR LAW.

MORE GOVERNMENT DEFEATS IN NEW SOUTH WALES. (Received Friday, 8.55 p.m.) SYDNEY, March 4. Pandemonium reigned in the Assembly to-day, when the Government asked the House to endorse the Legislative Council’s amendments to the Liquor Bill. The Government was defeated three times, on one occasion by 37 votes to 34, on a motion for the application of the gag. ■On the second occasion, it was defeated by 37 votes to 35 on the Legislative Council’s amendment permitting liquor to be served with meals HU nine o’clock at night in restaurants holding wine licenses. On the third occasion, on an amendment granting licensees the right of appeal, the Government’s defeat was duo to the fact that five members of the Labour Party, Messrs, Evatt, Booth, Stuart Robertson, Murphy and MeGirr refrained from voting. The Opposition went wild with jubilation and there were choruses of “Resign!” “Resign!”

The House accepter! tho Council’s other amendments anti the final stage of the measure was carried by 41 votes to 39.—(P.A.)

FAMILY ENDOWMENT. ANOTHER ADVERSE VOTE. (Received This Day 0.55 a.m.) SYDNEY, March 4. The Government suffered another serious defeat in the Legislative Council to-night, when Mr. Willis’s motion to rescind a resolution referring the Family Endowment Bill to a Select Committee and to restore the second reading to the Order Paper was defeated by 39 votes to 29.—(P.A.)