MR JOHN STEVENS OF THE LICENSING BILL.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 18, 16 August 1882, Page 3

MR JOHN STEVENS OF THE LICENSING BILL.

-OVI 'jilt -M ]>■*■> >-|i!-t-*i !..,•)•:•.•:/. Wd j vafcfe i [t&e» following ; ■ extract froito tbfej 9f«eQcb.ol the member ,for, Hai^itikeiiM oii>jbt« iriovtng!, : in the lloyWjMKmaeMneat to the Licet**. in«f BUI- ; tfofcta^e/waaoae jpre»t defect in if**a 4«^ TO:*P»>lt. far people who lived in towns ,/s© iquch as by .those, ybpae, business it wa« /jto trav ; e| through the counjtry on horse hack from one, en^ of tj»« year to the orhf.i;, and. tfi'cadl »t W^ide boteif.. These people.^iair^l^hiidiiio means, exc^p^^ |J>e . .ifAll. W ,^MTM4-M»PI»t to n)a{ce,fbe.{r U«,u;.se.f[aß|coin(o^ble as thej l p^e)ijeß. 11> were travelling in couj»try,diairicta it ought to he jaij^rfltiveoD the person haldiag--Hje; Jipe^f e, J^o, Rr« v M^ ?P» ;g°9£ »ccommo^atio,p ifpr -}wm*i •*. fojt ; t|ie man why 11 rod fi ,tipaon^» in t T^ er fr WM n ° provision for that, .either in the. oripi ' nal Ac^ or ( in the present BfjiL, pc cou).^ men (ion a ;.»'reat nianV; bthef , Hetecte iii "th^'i hicfiiftnnj* Jicfi especially , that ot'ihe election oorl r the .Ucen«|pg Coßimittefs, had jmposed upqn the .people a sfje'ai ae'ai of unncjcesßary trouMe'anfl 'expefase.^^ If the Jtisticw* of the Peac£ ( ,tjhj]oy#hP | # tjii'Sj colony were nojt. cpnpp«t^ntj or haVl , not sumcieiitihtejfr\tv to say, vfhether there slu -u ld be hce'fts^ 'hoiises^ tA'_th^ir^ l«jcaliki"J»<! or no*, tiv^n" they~we r e n °t fi t tJo" HoW' "Hef ' M iieityVConapiissioq of iJ^.;)fVace '' ■''Tufa k'cf imppsed upon the. J /pepj)re/|;f, ,^ J e.w !£eaiand .an unnecesspr^jgyM^nt/oi trouble and expense, inasmuch :is the whole of the cost of these local elections, advertisements, and tin* oth«-i- expenses connected therewith were token out of the pockets of the people."