MR. JOYCE'S BILL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4182, 3 August 1892, Page 2

MR. JOYCE'S BILL.

liquor Traffic Local Option.

The Liquor Traffio Looal Option Bill introduced into the Houae by Mr Joyce, M.H.R., and which comes on jor its second reading on Thursday, provides that any number of ratepayers, being not lees than one-tenth of the whole upon the roll of any licensing district, proclaimed under "TheLicensingAnt, 1881," or any other Act in force for the time being, may, at any time, give notice in writing to the fietnrning Officer of suoh district to take a poll of the ratepayers of such district not later than thirty days nor earlier than fourteen j)ye after suoh notice, as to whether licenses for the sale of intoxicating liquors shall be granted or renewed in such district, The Returning Officer shall, not Inter than the day after the said poll, declare the number of totes for and the number of votes against such issue, and if the vote when at taken shall be against the issue of any such license as aforesaid he Bball forthwith report the same to the Licensing Committee of the district ami to tho Colonial Secretary; and it shall not be lawful for suoh Licensing Committee or Colonial Secretary tin-reafter to grant or renew any lici-me for the sale of intoxicating liquors in such district, and if such license is so granted it shall bo null and void, All annual licenses existing in any district at the time of tho election' to held stall oontinue in force till the expiration of the period for whioh they were granted, and no penalties for the sale of intoxicating liquors without license shall be incurred till the expiration of Unpaid licenses at the end of the period for which they were granted. When any poll shall have been taken under this Act no further'poll shall b'e taken within three years thereafter,' ' '