EARLY CLOSING OF HOTELS
DEPUTATION OP BUSINESS MEN. By Telegraph-Press Association. Auckland, May 20. A deputation of business men waited on the Prime Minister requesting antishouting legislation/ and the closing of hotels at C o'clock. Mr. Massey's reply was in similar terms to the . reply he made to the deputation in the House of Representatives last week. Ho reminded tho deputation that the last licensing poll, though taken after the war began, did not close a single hotel. It would have been unreasonable for Parliament to have done anything against tho expressed wish of tho peoplo voiced only a fow months ago. Our control of the drink traffic compared favourably with other countries. None would suggest exchange of the New Zealand licensing conditions for those of England. He repeated that wet canteens would not be opened in New Zealand, and promised that the matter of licensed hours would be considered by tho Government.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2783, 30 May 1916, Page 7
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