TOBACCONISTS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LX, Issue LX, 1 November 1910, Page 5

TOBACCONISTS.

DEPUTATION TO MINISTER. BY TELEGRAPH— PRESS ASSOCIATION. WELLINGTON, Oct. 31. ' A deputation of tobacconists waited on the Minister for Labor and asked that a system of licenses for the trade be established, and that the individual license fee be £5, which would bring in £7500 per annum to the Consolidated Fund. They explained that ' the deputation represented 75 per cent of the New Zealand tobacconists, controlling 1500 people. The Minister pointed out that the matter was not in his jurisdiction. They should see the Minister for Customs. The Hon. Mr Millar saw only one way to deal with illicit trading, that was to fix a compulsory closing hour with no exemptions. The public would soon become educated to the change.