TELEGRAMS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue 9468, 15 October 1907, Page 5

TELEGRAMS.

CLUB CHARTERS AND LOCKERS. »i DEPUTATION TO THE GOVERNMENT. (PRESS ASSOCIATION. 1 WELLINGTON, October 14. A deputation from the New Zealand Alliance waited on the Colonial Secretary (Hon. Dr Findlay) to-day with reference to the granting of club charters. The Rev. J. Dawson said they understood the Cosmopolitan Club at Gisborne was applying for a charter. Charters in clubs had a very serious effect indeed. The Wellington Working Men's Club was ostensibly a literary club, but the takings at the bar during the first six months of this year amounted to £5202 13s 4d, and for refreshment tickets (whatever that meant) the total was £147 16s Bd, while the library deposits amounted to £8 17s 6d. Since last election club charters had been granted at Feilding, Hastings and Masterton, although, as he showed by figures, the people at the local option poll had voted strongly in favor of nolicense, while at Gisborne also the same state of things prevailed. He also condemned the locker system, and said that from what the Alliance had learned from these clubs it appeared that the whole tendency was in the direction of drinking, and they thought there were already sufficient facilities for all. Those who wanted the facilities of club life should not have liquor thrust upon them. The Rev. F. W. Isitt said that when he was in Gisborne he found a feeling that the Government was showing favoritism to the liquor sellers. The police inspector had laid an information against certain publicans for selling whisky in bottles which were wrongly branded, and at the same time informations were laid against certain tradesmen for not having had their weights and measures stamped. A. telegram came instructing the police to withdraw the informations against the publicans, but not against the tradespeople, and that action was greatly resented. The Colonial Secretary, in replying, asked the deputation to bear in mind that the present administration should be made responsible for its own conduct only, and that it did not commence a very long time ago. With regard to the clubs referred to by Mr Dawson, the Government was met with this difficulty in regard to the Masteffcon club. There was a definite promise made to the members that if they built their club house a charter ■ would be granted. That promise had been made by a responsible Minister. The same applied to Feilding and Hastings, and it also applied to the Cosmopolitan Club it Gisborne, whose application for a m. ar rf r came * n ci e nt een months ago. The Gisborne people were led to believe io a \ lf they erec ted a building costing £3000 a charter would follow in good bime. Again, the Government was jonfrouted with the question whether, is a matter of common justice, that iromise should not be made good. He isked the deputation to remember that n the present administration they had some of the best friends of the "cause :ney advocated, and who were constantly vigilant to see that the will of the people was not defeated. The matter same before the Cabinet on several oc;asions, and it perplexed them very :onsiderably. If it had come before hem as a matter of first impression, here would have been no question that bne charter would have been refused, »nd if similar circumstances arose in tuture these charters would he refused l very one of them. (Hear, hear.) The Cabinet had passed a resolution that no charter should be granted in future, Eind by virtue of that resolution he bwo days ago, promptly refused an application for a charter for a special arbistic club m Wellington. Applications from other parts of the Dominion had also been declined. The Cabinet's perplexity, however, in regard to the special cases referred to lay in the fact that promises had been made, and while tttey did not wish to escape responsibility or cast any reflection upon Ministers or a Ministry which took a different view, it was due to the present Government to impress upon the deputation the fact that their hands were tied. The rule that no further charters would be granted would be adhered to so long as the present Government reTm T"L°5? c - As t0 the rem *rk S oi Mr Isitt, the question of withdrawing informations in certain cases was entirely new to him, and he was certain to the Cabinet. It would be investigated, and if it were found to be true they would have something to say to the officers responsible. As to club charters generally he thought it was an anomaly that where local option was so widespread as it was in New , Zealand, the question should not also I I 71 ? * on as *° whether licenses should be granted to clubs! He spoke entirely for himself in this matter. He had not discussed it with any mebmers of the Ministry. Ab to the locker system, he thought it was even worse than the system of ordinary licenses because it was not subject to control and led itself to what was described by Mr Dawson, and when the proper time oame he agreed that something should be done to check it.

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