PRESBYTERY PROTEST
MASTERTON TRUST POWERS LIQUOR LICENSES (P.A.) DUNEDIN, Sept. 3. Concern was expressed by the Dupedin 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 the licensing committee and the wide powers given to the trust to issue occasional or conditional licenses for 'any fair, show or races.' or other place of public amusement, the term ’place of public amusement’ having possibilities of very wide and dangerous definitions. With regard to the situation of hotels, the Presbytery holds that no license 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 licensing’"
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22425, 4 September 1947, Page 6
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157PRESBYTERY PROTEST Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22425, 4 September 1947, Page 6
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