VARIED HOURS OF SUNSET

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28980, 22 August 1959, Page 4

VARIED HOURS OF SUNSET

Affect On Liquor Sales

’ "The Press’ Special Service DUNEDIN, August 21. A condition which the Licensing Control Commission has stipulated in granting Fosters' Guesthouse a permit to “sell and dispose of liquor with meals, partaken elsewhere than in the dining-room of the premises” has caused some Queenstown residents to consider that there will be scope for the employment at the guesthouse for a retired navigator or master mariner who can handle a sextant. Liquor, the commission says in its decision, is not to be sold or disposed of before 11.30 am. on any day. “Nor shall liquor be sold or disposed of after 8 p.m. or after sunset on any day. whichever time shall be the earlier.” It is the not to the proviso about sunset which has prompted the suggestion that there will be scope for someone able to handle a sextant to find employment at the guesthouse. The note says: “For the information of guests and to the licensees, the times of sunset at Queenstown, accurate to within two minutes and as compiled from the New Zealand Nautical Almanac, are set out as follows: “November 1, 1959, sunset 7.32 p.m.; December 1, 1959, 8.13 p.m.; January I, 1960, 8.35 p.m.; February 1, 1960, 8.15 p.m.; March 1. 1960, 7.33 p.m.; April 1, 1960, 6.35 p.m.; April 30, 1960, 5.44 p.m.”