LICENSING BILL.

Press, Volume L, Issue 14993, 13 June 1914, Page 4

LICENSING BILL.

RESOLUTION BY SOUTH CANTERBURY LICENSED VICTUALLERS. (VBESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) TOIARU. June 12. At £he inaugural meeting of the South Canterbury Provincial Council of licensed Victuallers of this district, the anticipated provisions of the new Licencing liili were discussed, and several resolutions pas&ed, to bo forwarded to tiie Government members of tue QiKuricv as arnenunients to the liiil. lxiese resolutions urge: —That no alteiiiuon Do uiuuo in mc majority neceato iMiiy ilut-H»ua» jj.uiuuuion, OS anything less than a three-nuns majority couia nut command tue moral s»upi>ort or tne people; tnat tiie time ior gujng elit>ct 10 Jocai .No-license be extenuea to tue same period as in tne caso of nacioiiai piolubatoii; tiiat provieiou slioula be made in tue new Bill for the restoration 01 liceusea to hotels thai lo»& their licenses, not on the vote ot the electors, but through the alteration of eieccora'-o boundaries when (as has been tne case loca.iv> such hotels were again included in '-he iicensed district througu tne subsequent alteration, of the boundaries; that, at least. 50 per cent, of licenses should be restored in No-| license districts when the No-license vote therein fell below the three-nftJis majority. Members pointed out that the prohibition vote in none of the Soufch Island No-license districts had maintained its original three-fifths majority strength, thereby showing that these districts had £oue back upon their first resolution, and were therefore entitled ta a measure of licensing-