Liquor laws changed
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) PORT MORESBY. 1 From today, liquor trading 'hours in Papua New Guinea i will be shorter, publicans are required to do more to keep order on their premises, and employers may be legally compelled to pay directly to wives part of the salary of habitual drunkards. The “Australian Financial I Review” reports that under newly-gazetted regulations, the new hours end the sale of alcohol at 8 p.m. on weekdays, and at 7 p.m. on Sundays. Formerly, trading ended at 10 p.m. every day except Sunday. Publicans are required to remove drunks from their premises by whatever means are necessary, including the ■ use of a reasonable degree of force, under the new regulations. An official commission of i inquiry into liquor trading in 1971 reported that the averiage Papua New Guinean [spent 20 per cent of his inI come on alcohol. During I celebrations of the territory’s I self-government last month, i public sobriety was enforced I by a three-day closing of (hotels, bars and taverns. 1
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33450, 4 February 1974, Page 19
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