HOTEL HOURS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17206, 28 June 1916, Page 7

HOTEL HOURS.

APPLICATION TO CLUBS. DEPUTATION TO PREMIER. [Per Press Association.] WELLINGTON, June 27. Another phase of the six o’clock clos ing question was put before the Prime Minister to-day by a deputation representing chartered clubs, which asked that if the restriction ot hours were decided upon it should not apply to clubs. The deputation represented' about thirty clubs in the North Island and Christchurch clubs, which had a membership of over 20,000, and had capital invested in club premises, libraries, etc., to between £300,000 aud £400,000. If it could be shown, said a member of the deputation, that any military necessity existed for closing hotels and clubs, no opposition would be offered, but the deputation did not admit that there was any such necessity. Mr Massey, in reply, said that if ordinary licensed houses were compelled to close their bars at a certain hour, he was confident that Parliament would make the law npnlv to the bars in the clubs and even Bellamy’s would come under the rule. He was pleased to hear what the deputation had to say. and would place its representations before the Cabinet,