THE VENDING OF LIQUOR

Feilding Star, Volume 7, Issue 2305, 6 September 1929, Page 7

THE VENDING OF LIQUOR

SIR ROBERT STOUT OBJECTS HIS MOTION DEFEATED (Per Pres s Association) AVallington, Sept. o. • lu tile '■Legislative Council, Sir Robert Stout moved that in the opinion of the Council, considering the waste of food and means and the. physical and moral injury ho people caused by the consumption of alcoholic liquor, steps should be taken by the Government to discourage such consumption and to pass such a law as will prevent the Public Trustee being a brewer or vendor ot such liquors. The motion was. not intended as a punishment for the Public Trustee, but to do him a service. He probably only consented to be a brewer because he thought it his duty to do something for the estates lor which he was trustee. The Leader of the Council, the Hon. T. X. Sidey, said none of the liquior Interests donUroflod bv the Public Trustee belonged to the State or 'the Public Trust Office, They belonged solely to - individuals, for whom the Public Trustee was acting in tlie same (capacity as any other trustee. He was bound to do his best i.ll the interests of the beueficaries for whom he wa*; acting. That was within the scope of the Jaw. The Hon. AY. Earnshaw also opposed the motion, widen was defeated by ‘23 votes to C.