LICENSING BLL.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 213, 6 September 1907, Page 7

LICENSING BLL.

CITY DISTRICTS RECONSTITUTED. (By Telegraph.—Parliamentary Reporter.) j WELLINGTON. Thursday. j -A short measure called the Licensing , Pulls Bill was introduced to-day by Go- | vi-rnor's message. It makes provision for taking licensing polls in the event • oi an election occurring other lhan upon ' the triennial date, and reconstitutes the city licensing areas, throwing the whole of the various electorates around each ! or The four large et-ntres into one licensing district. The bill provides "that if | at any time Parliament is dissolved be- i lure it has been two years in existeac?. a licensing poll shall" be ' taken at the! next general -election thereafter not with- j standing anything to the contrary in the Alcoholic ■ Liqnors Sale Control Act Amendment Act. 1595. but the operation of such poll shall be suspended until the I day when the Parliament, so dissolved j would otherwise have expired by efflux- j ion of time, -and sucil poii sbill take j effect accordingly as if taken on that day. unless it has been already superseded by a subsequent poll. Until the poll so suspended in its operation la-kes effect in accordance with this Act. or is so superseded, the poll in force at i time of the taking of such first men- ' tioned pail shall continue in full force ; and operation. Subsection 2 of section j 4 of ;he Alcoholic Liquor S-ale Control I Act Amendment Act, 1595. is repealed. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the City Sing-le Electorates Act, 1903. or in the report of the Commissioners thereunder, it is declared that for the purposes of all licensing poils j the Auckland licensing district shall con- i sist of the electoral districts of Auckland E:ist. Auckland Central, Auckland West, and Grey Lynn."