ANOTHER LICENSING MUDDLE.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 432, 15 February 1909, Page 2

ANOTHER LICENSING MUDDLE.

COMMITTEES FOR PROHIBITED AREA 3.

QUESTION OF EXPENSES.

Once more a curious position has arisen' in connection with the licensing lawe,- and , it appears.that in March Licensing Committees will have to bo elected by every-iicens- : ing district in tho Dominion, including thoßa. in which No-License has been carried. There was a clause in the Licensing, Amendment.! Act df:lß9s;,:piovidingtKat:it should be'un-' necessary :to -.'.tleot a. committee .in . a dis.' trict where 'prohibition "haoV been I carried;," but/this has-been repealed, and as far aa~ : can 'be(judged..every : district>' wherei "/No-'-" License has ibeen.: carried will now have to. ga : to the of. electing its own cdmmitto.V: It may- be tliat in' the ;.eiec'tbrates -.which have.' bsen .greatly'.altered, or -where two parts': pi* two : . licensing ; Have. been :amalg3- •" matedj as' Ashburton, there will. b<Cw6rfr'i •for the^aewly-elected.'committees:todo'duit • ing ; : the: month ; of.-; their .election and:the'end ;of ■ Junei'.,when the licensing poll. take'e '■"■ effect,:/ They may: have';.to .make decisions::; with regard-to, transfers, : and so forth; but;! after that'time they will have nothing to'do.'" '■';: It is probable that in. the districts which! have been greatly, altered, or quite hew. dis-' tricts, :such.as 'Wellington-Subujbsj' itwili , be.exceedingly difficult to.decide whatlocal ;body,, shall ;be.ar the espenEe. of the .election ■■ of the : -':'. V, '''.. ■. ■' : '\ ,; ft ■••'..< '■'•'