POLLS ON LIQUOR LICENCES
Amending Of Law Urged (New Zealana Press Association/ AUCKLAND, May 22. The 1948 Licensing Act should be amended to make a poll of electors mandatory in districts where the Licensing Control Commission proposed to issue new liquor licences, said the Auckland secretary of the New Zealand Alliance (Mr N. A. Reynolds) today. The requests for polls in the Northcote and Brown’s Bay areas (where new licences are proposed) drew attention to the unsatisfactory situation created by the recent Licensing Act amendments, he said. The 1953 amendment gave 50 or more electors, or the local authority, the right to apply for a poll before a publican’s licence was issued in its area. But the commission still decided whether such a poll should be taken, said Mr Reynolds. There could be no justification for the commission arbitrarily issuing a licence for any area in' the face of local opposition, or in the absence of any expressed wish] from residents concerning such a licence. J
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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28284, 23 May 1957, Page 18
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