STATE LICENSE CONTROL

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 212, 7 September 1922, Page 7

STATE LICENSE CONTROL

s BILL RULE© OUT. (By Telegraph.—Press Assoclatiou.) WELLINGTON, Thursday. The State Control of Licenses Bill provoked considerable discussion when Mr. IL McCallum (Wairau) moved the second reading. Mr. MeCombs said the bill cnuld not be treated seriously, as it contained many clauses; which were perfectly impossible, and it was quite absurd to expect, as the bill expected, that the! trade would reform itself. | Mr. Massey said at a later stage he would have to raise the question of the bill being an appropriation bill. lie believed it was such, and he would ask the speaker to rule on the point. M*o ; .JLsitt defended his previous statement that the drink bill of the country amounted to nine millions, and ridiculed some of the calculations put forward by Mr. McCallum. " j Mr. Lysnar congratulated Mr. Me-' Callum on the introduction of the bill.l but said it would bo more to the purpose if the Government had tried to put thei recommendations of the Licensing Com-| mittee into a statute. The two greatest I evils this country had to face were extreme Labour and prohibition. The bill was eventually ruled out as being an appropriation measure.