Prohibition and Temperance.

Hastings Standard, Issue 26, 27 May 1896, Page 3

Prohibition and Temperance.

Palmerstox Nortii, May 26. The third annual meeting of the Prohibition Council for Wellington, Taranaki, and Hawke's Bay was held yesterday. Resolutions were carried n questing the Government to amend the Licensing Act that the issue of prohibition be acceded by a hare majority of votes polled; that this Council renew the demands of the temperance party to be allowed to vote on the question of colonial option at the next licensing poll, and that a bare majority shall decide; that the Council recognise the large and growing share in the evils of the liquor trallic, for which drinking clubs are responsible, and demands that these clubs be I placed on the same footing in regard to Sunday observance, limitation of hours, police supervision, and popular control as publichous.es. and no now club charters be issued ; that this Council expresses its approval of the refusal of the Government of charters for working men's clubs at Feilding, Ilawera, and elsewhere ; that publichouse license-fees should be paid to the Treasury instead of to local bodies ; that conditional licenses and packrt licenses to steamers trading on rivers and within harbours be abalished ; that nil proposed amendments by the Council be forwarded to Mr A. S. Adams, Dunedin, with the request that they be embodied in a bill to be introduced next session. ArcivLAM), Tuesday, 20. A temperance conference attended by delegates from all parts of the Auckland province, yesterday formed a divisional Prohibition Council representing all the electorates. It was resolved that the convention expresses its satisfaction at the provision of the last liquor bill for taking the local option poll on the several election days, and to appeal to Parliament to resist any attempt to get this provision altered. It was also resolved that the provisions of the Act for enforcing the law in future prohibition districts be made immediately applicable to the King Country, I'riwera country, and all boroughs and ridings in which no licenses exist.