LIQUOR STILL SOLD.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 215, 11 September 1931, Page 8

LIQUOR STILL SOLD.

CLUB BAR AT ASHBURTON.

NOTICE FROM 'MINISTER.

MATTER, IN,. SOLICITOR'S. HANDS,

(By.-Telegraph.—Press ;Assqciation.>

ASHBUETON, , day,

The • committee \ of the Ashburton Club, after :considering a letter-, from the Minister of Internal" Affairs,, the.' Hon., P. A.: de.'la P.errelle, < in.-:reference:' toythe. (sale; of liquor/has.decmeaito^lfee?^ e matter in" the - hands,-,,0f: : Thelsale' of/^liqupr^pMinties-'inea^M^'.' The Minister in. hlsV notice to: the effect that the . sale of ■ liquor over.the .bar of- theA&tburt'on.Club and Mutual .School of Arts must c'eease. It is stated that the Minister's action resulted from representations- made to him by the no-license movement in Ashburton. As a result of the alteration in-j the electoral boundaries, which < merged Ashburton in , the Ellesmere licensing district in 1928, Ashburton became ) a licensed district, so the'club, acting upon legal• advice, opened,its bar on Decem--b.er',lo,. 1928. ; .' i. . •; -]' ■ •.. : : The club's charter was . cancelled' shortly, after Ashburton became a noliecnse district in 1903, but on legal advice the club paid its annual. charter fee to the Ashburton Borough Council, and this measure enabled it to reopen the bar in 1928 without question.- .The liar was remodelled and: ?alteration's which cost £1000 were:carried out.; No new licensee being granted, it was the (/rily licciis'ed house in Ashburton. No further action was taken until the Ashburton licensing appeal case was ,lfl ; kon to the Privy Council and- disiiiisfseil. .' - ' \"