LICENSING BILL
REFORM PARTY DIFFERENCES. (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, December 9. Tn reply to the statements that have been published as to what took place at a deputation of members to the Government on Monday last regarding the Licensing Bill, the Prime Minister states that he had said he could raise no objection to a private member bringing down a Bill, but that he would have to ascertain whether the forms of the House would permit that course to be followed. As to the request that a Minister of rhe Crown would bring down a Bill, Mr Coated said he had stated that that was a matter upon which he was unable to answer at the moment, but he would consider it. In any case, he had said he thought it was a time for calm thinking, and it might be necessary for him to call the Party together in order to discuss the situation.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/GEST19271210.2.34
Bibliographic details
Greymouth Evening Star, 10 December 1927, Page 7
Word Count
155LICENSING BILL Greymouth Evening Star, 10 December 1927, Page 7
Using This Item
The Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd is the copyright owner for the Greymouth Evening Star. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.