SALE OF LIQUOR

Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 June 1942, Page 4

SALE OF LIQUOR

REDUCTION IN HOURS ■UNDER EMERGENCY REGULATIONS HOTELS TO CLOSE ON SATURDAY AFTERNOONS, FROM TWO P.M. TO FOUR P.M. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The retail hours for the sale of liquor in future will be from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., except on Saturdays, when hotels must close for two hours between 2 p.m. and 4 p.m., according to the Licensing Act Emergency Regulations gazetted today. They come into force immediately. Licensees will be required to keep a register of lodgers and orders are to be signed for all drinks ordered by lodgers after hours. The police may apply to a magistrate for cancellation of a publican’s license and the magistrate may cancel it and disqualify the premises for a period of not more than two years. It is provided that no intoxicatants shall be consumed in railway trains, rail-cars, trams, omnibuses, service cars or taxis, or taken on to such vehicles for consumption, and no public vehicle can be used for the carrying of liquor. For Maoris in no-license areas, the existing provision restricting sale or supply of liquor to soldiers other than for consumption on the premises is now made to apply to all the services and where a naval, military or air authority has declared in writing any licensed premises out of bounds a publican is liable to a fine for supplying liquor to any member of that force., It is now an offence, punishable by a fine of £lO, for fire-watchers to drink or have liquor in their possession or for persons to supply it to them. With the proviso that existing contracts may be carried on until August 31, newspaper advertising of liquor is prohibited, except for the size of two inches by two and a half inches, and no advertisement shall contain matter calculated to encourage drinking among women. Screen or radio advertising of liquor is prohibited. It is now an offence to sell materials packed, measured compounded or designed to enable others than licensed brewers to make intoxicating liquors, and constables may search for sly grog. Licences may be voluntarily suspended for revival after the war and licensees who are performing national service may transfer their licenses to. their wives, with the consent of a licensing committee.