THE NEW LICENSING LAW.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13909, 7 December 1910, Page 10

THE NEW LICENSING LAW.

DOUBTFUL POTNTS. *^1 (1»RIS8 ASSOCIATtOK TSLXCBAU.) "'j^l WELLINGTON, tkcvdmfjg The Hon. Dr. Findlay the view expressed by a legal aati&s£! in Dunedin, that under the prov_»i of the new Public Holidays Act, Jjqj&; will have to close on the Monday'jqj'* lowing Christmas Day. •■r'fe Another feature of the hcenaugjar concerning which there has been _£* doubt, if. the date when 10 o'clock tjfag ing is to operate. It lias been afcwS tamed that the amendment in thoMt cannot apply to existing liccuses, trbi* terminate on June 30th next. sal 10 o'cloefc closing will operate «{_■ that date. .*j| (BPKCIAI, TO "THE PRESS.") -."? WELLINGTON, December ajfe "If a registered barmaid leaves $jj country, what is to prevent hor pejefc" ing with or selling her certificate' &! another who wishes to take up Ytffv in New Zealand?"' *gs=; This question was put to the o_ot of the Labour Department who isdrtfjl ing the regulations in regard to fljj"registration of barmaids. He ceaf„f||j that the point had also liini, and ventured to suggest thakid might be necessary to have the *$!(*>] maids photographed or take their nnfifrl

prints, as a means of identification. point, however, was not a very >•:_£ portant one, as it would not aifocitifc number of barmaids, however mucosae' "changes were rung." . '-:~\ Another point in the Licenu&f!Amendment Act of tlie recent sessaa was the provision that an applicasbffc. registration must have been ia wjafc; for three months during the year pr*.ceding the coming into force of--t* Act. The official assumed that _%. greater number of applications gistration would bo made by post. $8, their receipt forms would bo sent okt to be filled in, and on their retara' steps would be taken by the agents 4if> the department to verify the parties lars contained therein, especially,* referring to the applicants' term vice during the previous twelve moaSaj 1 No registration can take place *&tjij after the regulations are gazetted. "^A ■'. LLJ : ' -ri-i'-l