THE PREMIER AND THE HOTEL-KEEPERS.
What had every appearance of a spontaneous outburst of sympathy with the hotel-keepers of the colony came from the Premier on Friday, when replying to a question by Mr Bollard suggesting that a discretionary power should be given to magistrates as to endorsing licenses of hotelkeepers for breaches of the licensing laws. Mr Seddon said that members would do well to carefully consider the position of hotelkeepers. The condition of affairs in regard to the endoi'sement of licenses was such that in some instances the tenure of the hotelkeepers was not more than from month to month. The position of the hotelkeeper was almost unbearable. In the case mentioned by Mr Bollard the magistrate himself said that a discretionary power should be given. Some persons, for reasons best known to themselves, had induced the servant of an hotelkeeper to break the law by selling them liquor during prohibited hours, and the hotelkeeper and his family suffered. As he had stated, the condition of the hotelkeeper was becoming unbearable, and the sooner some of the defects in the law were removed the better for all concerned. — Evening Star Reporter.
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Clutha Leader, Volume XXVI, Issue 1318, 25 July 1899, Page 3
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