NO LIQUOR ON TRAINS
Dining Cars “Not Possible” (From Our Own Reporter) WELLINGTON, June 1. The Government’s plan to liberalise licensing laws by referendum next year will not extend to the running of club cars serving liquor on trains and there is no possibility, for technical reasons, of the establishment of dining cars on New Zealand trains. The General Manager of Railways (Mr A. T. Gandell) yesterday said he was interested in the dining facilities on British trains.
Government feeling is that if liquor were made available legally on trains, particularly on main trunk routes, there could be undesirable consequences.
The Minister of Railways (Mr McAlpine) said tonight that dining cars would be impossible because of the narrow gauge and sharp turns. Food and liquor were served in the Cook Strait ferries, “but there is far more room at sea,” he said.
Support for Seamen.—The freezer department of Thomas Borthwick and Sons (Australasia), Ltd., this week unanimously adopted a resolution supporting the action of British seamen in their struggle for better wages and conditions.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31075, 2 June 1966, Page 14
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