Masterton Licensing Trust
Concern was expressed ■ at the monthly meeting of the Duhedin Presbytery last night at the considerable power to .be- given to the Masterton Licensing Trust under the proposed new legislation. The following resolution was carried unanimously:—“With reference to the proposed legislation for the Masterton Licensing Trust, the Presbytery of Dunedin respectfully protests to the Government against the introduction of restaurant drinking, the omission of a licensing committee, and the wide powers given to the trust to issue occasional or conditional licences for ‘any fair, show? races, or other place of public amusement.’ The term ‘place of public amusement’ has possibilities of very wide and dangerous definitions. With regard to the situation of hotels, the Presbytery holds that no licence or club charter should be operated in a residential area, unless and until a referendum has been taken in terms of the report of the Royal Commission on Licencing.”—(P.A.)
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Greymouth Evening Star, 3 September 1947, Page 8
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