TRUST CONTROL OF HOTELS

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25245, 25 July 1947, Page 6

TRUST CONTROL OF HOTELS

4 DISTRIBUTION OF PROFITS VIEWS OF NEW ZEALAND ALLIANCE (P.A.) WELLINGTON. July 24. a An outline of the features it wished to see incorporated in any system of trust control of hotels was approved by the annual meeting of the New Zealand Alliance. Fifth on the list was this clause: “That all net profits of trusts be first used to liquidate capital costs, and after that for remedying the known detrimental effect of the beverage use or alchbhol.” Other resolutions passed were that while rigidly adhering to the conviction that the total abolition of the liquor traffic was the only solution o* the problem it created, the meeting considered that when trust control was brought into operation it was de*-r sirable that the trust be elected by * vote of the people, that it be in sowcontrol of the supply, sale and distribution of liquor in its area, that W powers and functions be clearly and fully defined in the Act so as to cew? all r-oints of suoervision at present provided by the licensing committed that the conduct of all trusts be sub; ject to review on appeal by a spee»L central judicial body, including • Supreme Court judge who shouldJJ? chairman; that where trust con#®* operates, at the second three-yeW poll after its inception and there**** at every noil, the experiment be mitted to the public by way. 57 referendum as to whether they ■ to retain it or revert to private entar™ prise or no-licence.