LIQUOR AT TOWN' HALL

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 84, 6 October 1933, Page 4

LIQUOR AT TOWN' HALL

QUESTION OF CONTROL

AUCKLAND CITY COUNCIL

VIEW

(Jjj teleijriilili-— J Jres* rt». . ..num.) AUCKLAND, October 5. After a discussion iv which the "Back to Childhood" party was repeatedly mentioned, the City Council declined to accept a proposal that_ liquor should be more or less specifically banned from functions held in the Town Hall. ' : :.■■■:•■ The following resolution, passed at a recent district convention was forwarded by the Women's Christian Temperance Union:—"That this ■■convention "appeals to the Mayor and councillors urging them'to prohibit the use of alcoholic drink at any function held iv the Town ;Hall." -... The Mayor, Mr. G. W. Hutchison, moved that the communication' bo re.ceived. . : • ' ..-,■-.> Councillor t>. Doualdsoii,.as an amendment, moved ■ that the council should give effect to tho request as far-asit was able. • . .■'■'-. ; ■'■■ ■■■ \■• Councillor A. JJosseiy. who seconded, the amendment, said that the .council should bo able to enforce tho same restrictions as other JiaJl owners. Liquor had'been prohibited in■ the Trades Kail for years, although there, had bceii a good deal of trouble in enforcing the rule. He recognised that liquor could not be excluded from banquets held in the Town Hall, but permits could be obtained pn such occasions,'as was the rule elsewhere. The Mayor said that the,rules under which the hall was let did not make any specific conditions regarding liquor, but gave all the needed discretionary power to j the Town Clerk for preserving good'order and control of the premises. "In the city there has grown up a practice on tho part of some j young men who think it manly' to 'take! a spot to a dance,' as they call it, and give liquor to their gir] friends," ht> said. "I cau only say that it is not a manly act, and anyone who does it is unworthy of the confidence of any young lady. At ■ the same time some people are too hysterical ab/out , such matters. I have visited a great many functions and have heard very'few complaints. ' "We havd ample powers vested in the hallkeper if anything further ' oc* curs, but I do not think it will. There is no need for any a-ction at tho present time." •. '■' ."■ ;

The amendment'was lost and the motion carried. ■•■. : ■ ; ' K-i