Licensing Railway Refreshment Rooms.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3376, 3 December 1889, Page 2

Licensing Railway Refreshment Rooms.

The New Zealand Railway Comipsionm are inviting tenders for refreshment rßprns at various railway stations tlirqiigbflut the colony, find licensing them to sol! spirituous liquors, A previous attempt 10 do so in the case of the Auckland railway station was. successfully opposed, on flip ground that the sale of drjnk there would lead to accidents, and that the hotels adjacent provided aipple accommodation for bona fide tiwllpis, T;bo temperance organisations intend again to oppose the proposal to license the Auckland railway station, but as the Commissioners bavo uncontrolled power under the Act, it is not probable much attention will be given to any remonstrances. The new regulations provide also for Sunday trading (while hotels uro kept closed), as these refreshment rooms may be kept open on Sunday where trains are run, for balf-an-liour before a train airlyes line) a quartor-of-an-liour after its departure,' Tfjesp refreshment, rooms may be leased for V term of seven years, so that the matcor is effectually beyond local control, When the Act was before the Assembly an | endjivpur was niado to make 'such licence? subject (p the .control of, the Licensing Cotnißitteo in whoso rjistrict they were situate, but the Government was strong enough to defeat th e clause, a good deal of " whipping" being done, 4s all fees icgeiyed for such licenses form a part of the revenue of tho Commissioners for the purpose of the Act they have a strong interest in establishing:v'drinking facilities' on the railways wherever posslb|e.-»Week]y : Newii,