LICENSING LAWS
NI'iED FOR REVISION
IPER PRESS ASSOCIATION.]
HASTINGS. February 21
Reform in rhe hotel licensing laws of the Dominion, with the object not of bringing about an increase in the number of "drinking dens." hut in order that bet ter' residential accommodation might ho provided, in the light, of modern requirements, for iho i ravelling public, was urged by a meeting of the Hastings Chamber of Commerce. last evening.
Though members expressed full sympathy with the representation?, made by the Southland Progress League, for a revision of rhe licensing laws, ir was considered that ih' question was one of narional policy, and that it should he placed before tlm Associated Chambers, for consider :.i Hon.
However, emphasis was laid or< the fact that the meeting was definitely of the opinion that any stops taken shoii'd bo in iho direction of r-n’i-i--iug iho co-operation of the leader’, fr Hie chiirchp;’.. and of Hie New Zealand Alliance.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 21 February 1939, Page 5
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