WHY LIQUOR IS BEING CARRIED

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 5 August 1919, Page 5

WHY LIQUOR IS BEING CARRIED

WANGANUI, Aug. 4. lhe Wangarui Chamber of Commerce has received a reply from the Minister ot Hallways as an outcome of the questions whether - liquor was regarded in the essential class during the restricted railway service. "In m v opinion it cannot be treated in the same way a s other gooo% essential or non-essential,'; states the Hon. W. H. Herries. "The carriage or liquor is so intimately connected with the licensing question and licensing law that it must be placed on a different footing to other goods. I cannot, on behalf of the Railway 'Department, take upon myself the responsibility ot an action enforcing prohibition in country districts with a further possibility ot lic-enseis forfeiting thoir lin&eSiiZr- n <* supplying that which they obtained their licenses for at the last licensing poll. The people decided that licenses are to be continued and it is not for the Railway Department to do an j thing that might possibly militate against that determination Meanwnile instructions have been issued to limit as far as possible the consignment l q"°r to only acutely necessary The Minister added that Cabinet had not come to any decision in the matter.