TEMPERANCE ITEMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 4995, 6 April 1895, Page 3

TEMPERANCE ITEMS.

THE PROHIBITION MOVEMENT.

W . Chmstchurch, Thursday. 77 At a meeting of the Canterbury Divisional Prohibition League today, a platform was adopted, and the Rev, L. M, Isitfc eloctod President, It was resolved to recommend tho repeal of the olauses of the Licensing Act, which (1) gave tho Governor tho power to remove the Licensing Committee at pleasure, (2) bestowed upon the publican the right to two years' ronewal of his license, (3) conferred upon a Chairman and two Members of a Committee, the power to grant wholesale licenses, (4) demanded a three-fifths majority for an effective no-license poll, required a poll of half the electors, and made provision for an increase of licenses on the increase of population. The following amendments were

declared deairablo:-(l) The aboli-

tion of wholesale licenses in nodistricts; (2) the increase in -flE'licensed districts of the minimum 'quantity to ho sold by wholesale ■* licensee to 10 gallons, such sale to bo of one kind of liquor only; (3) tho prohibition of canvassing for orders in no-license districts, and attachment penalties for breaches of the above clauses ;(4) the abolition of bottlo, Now Zealand wine, accommodation, conditional railway, refreshment room, and packet licenses; (s)clubs to be brought under tho local option vote; (6) that 110 license fees he charged, and that payment of all Committee Elections and ' Licensing Polls bo mado from the public funds It was resolved that a clause ho sought, declaring that clause 21 of the 1893 Act has not and shall not

be deemed to havo any retrospective operation, and that nothing therein shall he considered so as Wto affect or have affected any such proceedings pending in any Court of Law at the time when the Act was passed.