NEW SOUTH WALES LIQUOR ACT AMENDING BILL.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIV, Issue 148, 19 December 1907, Page 7

NEW SOUTH WALES LIQUOR ACT AMENDING BILL.

IT MEETS WITH MUCH OPPOSITION By Telegraph.— Press Association.—Copyright. (Received December 19, 9.8 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day.' The Assembly passed to tho third reading of a Bill to amend the Liquor Act, so as to mako clear the intention of Parliament that votes cast for nolicensee when insufficient- to carry tho license 'should be added to the votes cast for reduction. Tho proposal met with much opposition on tho grounds that tho Act had not been declared defective, and that those interested in tho liquor trade had gone to much expense in preparing to fight the matter in tho law courts, and should not be prevented from having a rim for their money by the passage of what was little more than panic legislation. Eventually a proviso was inserted to tho effect that tho Dill should not affoct litigation pending in the Supreme Court up to the 17th inst. The liquor party urged that, although tho Act provided that in the event t>f no-license being carried, the votes cast for no-license should bo added to thosein favour of reduction, it failed to mako clear, or state in any way, what should be done when this addition was made. The Local Option Court then announced the granting of a writ of prohibition, pending an appeal tc*tho Full Court.