N.Z. ALLIANCE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 177, 28 July 1934, Page 10

N.Z. ALLIANCE.

LIQUOR AT SPORTS CLUBS. INSPECTION ADVOCATED. (By Tclegrapl).—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Friday. The New Zealand Alliance at its annual meeting yesterday reaffirmed its opposition to the redistribution of licenses. It decided to ask the Government that no-license districts be not subdivided and merged into licensing districts, as was done at Ashburton.

Tho meeting also decided to urge upon tho Government that the consumption of intoxicating liquor by any person in charge of a motor car bo deemed an offence, and that hotels should have only one bar, and that this should be the only place from which liquor could be supplied. Further, that golf, bowiing and similar clubs and all cabarets and dance halls should bo subject to inspection in the same manner a.s licensed premises, with a view to eliminating the illegal sale and consumption of liquor.

The meeting also urged that it be an offence for any person other than parents or legal guardians to offer intoxicating liquor to a person under 21 years of age.

The Rev. J. R. Blanchard was unanimously re-elected president. All the vicepresidents were re-elected.

The following were elected members of tho standing committee:—Mr. T. C. Brash, Lieutenant-Colonel F. W. Burton, tho Rev. S. J. Campbell, Messrs. C. R. Edmond, P. A. Feist, Sir William Hunt, Mr. A. H. Ivory, Misses C. E. Kirk and M. McLean, Meesrs. R. S. Maunder and f>. T. Martin, the Rev. H. .T. O'Dell, Mr. H. E. Pacey, Mrs. N. Peryman, the Rev. W. Bramwcll Scott, Messrs. N. R. Soddon, F. C. Spratt, G. L.' Stewart and T. B. Strong, the Rev. A. G. Saunders and Mr. B. 11. Wood. Mr. A. H. Ivory was reelected treasurer.

Attention was called to the fact that whereas summary convictions were secured in 82 per cent of all prosecutions, records over a period of years showed that in the case of the prosecution of hotclkeepers convictions were secured in only 50 per cent of the cases. This was discouraging to the police in their efforts to secure observance of the law. The privilege of obtaining liquor after 6 p.m. in hotels should bo confined to the supplying of liquor with meals to bona fide resident diners iu the dining 'room of the hotel up to 8 p.m. Thereafter the bar and all storage places for liquor should be kept securely locked until 9 a.m. next day. The furnishing or supplying of liquor to any person by anybody on licensed premises after 6 p.m., save as above provided, should be deemed an offence, except that this should not apply to the licensee supplying liquor to the members of his or her own family, or demanded by residents in case of sudden sickness.