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Gisborne Times, Volume XLVIII, Issue 4580, 8 June 1917, Page 5

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RECOMMENDED BY WELLINGTON MEETING. Press Association TelegramWELLINGTON, June 7. At a large public meeting in the Town Hall to-night, the Mayor (Mr Luke) presiding, the following resolutions were carried by large majorities : “That this meeting of the citizens of Wellington is of opinion that in order to ensure an early and successful issue of the war by our Allies and by ourselves, every 7 effort on our part must be put forth to the one end of winning the war. Therefore it has become a national necessity to secure maximum efficiency in military, commercial, industrial and social affairs and also to reduce unnecessary expenditure to a minimum, and 1 being convinced that a restriction of the hours for the sale of intoxicating liquors would assist in these directions more than any other single reform, they would urgently request the Government to prepare and,introduce into Parliament at the earliest possible date a Bill to reduce the hours during which alcoholic liquor may be sold to the hours between 8 o’clock in the morning and 6 p.m. and use cverv effort to have the Bill passed and "brought into effect without tieliTV. ‘‘•’That His Worship tho Mayor be requested to forward a copy 7 of the resolution just passed to the ActingPrime Minister (Sir James Allen, KCB.), and ask that he a time for a deputation from tins meeting to lay before him in detail the desires of this meeting.