ALLIANCE'S VIEWS ON HOTEL TRUST CONTROL

Greymouth Evening Star, 25 July 1947, Page 9

ALLIANCE'S VIEWS ON HOTEL TRUST CONTROL

(P.A.) WELLINGTON, July 24. An outline of the features it wished to see incorporated in any system of trust control of hotels was approved by the annual meeting of the New Zealand Alliance. Fifth on the list was this clause: “That all net profits of trusts be first used to liquidate capital costs, and after that for remedying the known detrimental effect of the beverage use of alcohol-.”

Other resolutions passed were that while rigidly adhering to the conviction that the total abolition of the liquor traffic was tire only solution of the problem it created, the meeting considered that when trust control was brought into operation it vvas desirable that the trust be elected by a vote of the people, that it be in sole control of the supply, sale and distribution of liquor in its area, that its powers and functions be clearly and fully defined in the Act so as to cover all points of supervision at'presenl provided by the licensing committees; that the conduct of all trusts be subject to review on appeal by a special central judicial body, including a Supreme Court judge who should bo chairman: that where trust control operates, at the second three-yearly poll after its inception and thereafter at every poll, the experiment be submitted to the public by way ol' referendum as to whether they wished to retain it or revert to private enterprise or no-lieence.