LICENSING TRUST AT INVERCARGILL

Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26129, 3 June 1950, Page 8

LICENSING TRUST AT INVERCARGILL

SUCCESS DESCRIBED AS “PHENOMENAL” (New Zealand Press Association) INVERCARGILL. June 2. Describing the success of the Invercargill Licensing Trust as “phenomenal and beyond all expectations,” Mr Hugh Ritchie, the chairman, in his review of the year’s working, at a meeting of the trust yesterday congratulated the managers and staff on their efforts to keep consumption of liquor on a high plane. “In appreciation of their efforts.” he said, “members of the trust have decided to distribute a bonus totalling £2OOO among members of the various staffs in proportion to their length of service with the trust. The trust started with no money whatever, no experience, and no hotels. We had to blaze the path and. setting our performance against that of trusts in the north which were started after us. and might have profited by our experience. I think our success has been nhenomenal and beyond all expectations. This is specially so when it is remembered that we paid very dearly for building done and in the early stages we also naid Nearly by reason of inexperienced staff.”

Mr Ritchie said that since the establishment of the trust conditions of the sale of liouor had improved in In-

vercargill. There was no after hours drinking or back door sales in the city, and sly grogging had also disappeared.