LICENSING TRADE

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 74, 24 September 1943, Page 9

LICENSING TRADE

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The fcrime ■.3ttiiil*t(Brv';-::(Mf.r.>:-iVaser)» speaking in the Town Ball last night, stated that the Government had decided to set up a Royal Commission as soon as practicable after the General Election for the purpose ot conducting a thorough examination of the Licensing Act and its operations, together with .ihe;: matters : relatini: thereto, and ta make any recommendations that rilight be considered deisirable. The recomihendations, other, than those upon which there Was general agreement, would be submitted to a referendum of the people. :Mr, Fraieer, saidhe -thought th&t Mr. Holland had made: a partial firbmise of a partial cbttimissipft.: He'also-under-stood that those -who Were responsible or carry ihg4 on' ; the 'licensing trade: were quite m<favbUr of a Royial CbmmisSiOn, so that the Unrest about the present licensing laws; and their conduct could be allayed. It was only fair also,to say that When«the Minister of Health as Acting Minister of Customs and; the Minister of■(•; Justice had to^ deal : With dhe c ;tlUestibn ; of^ licensing regulations they received the co-operation bf the licensing -trade. The people of the country at the present tinie, however^ felt that the whole matter should be looked into and the Government proposed -to do tilat*