A Licensing Question.

Manawatu Standard, Issue 7403, 19 September 1902, Page 2

A Licensing Question.

Yfrws of the Magistral;*,

(Per Press Association. 11. .. VfMWoBr, Friday. At a m «,tin ? or the LUnMntj Comto SK ?i i MlUe/ ton e«"i«O" township to take tho place of the license l apse d in Bns^«;Pact of the district mtbc strongest terms in condemnation Ho f n^°n aSe l" ih? Inmber1 nmber o"i«n!e 3 . olL?f^ y °PP«s«l the jmmt of the appaeaUou and »«d l!fhb traffic vi tenV^ eiXfft tlCi° c«tai% was never in! ttfi Vf, 1<«ul««». " applicants iA TV tUa and took th. their?&£^ ? tauutewd. that was thkc to Ut • J h-° °M»««nttM had no--2?. do »t The duty of the bSELT! T* 8 tO vdc&l honestly with the s^«« i**™* thtt aPPK«t lO n would IuSW Ulert? n- n En Klftnd one 'ar?rt J . W People was wwidered vin^ g l P«rCOQta 8e and he was .onISV° me 2^ tUe would legislate on the liquor question on tha oasis of population and from the point of I Hew of the people, «nd not from tho | point of Tiew of the brewers and pub. 1 ucans. The position now waa that in the duller district there was a license m existence to every hundred men, women and children. If all these public liouees were really maintained by the people it meant thero was an enormous waste'of money. As Chairman it was his duty to opposo a further increase of licenses and he appealed to the Committee not to allow tho planting of lioenses wherever tha publicans wished. It Wal proposed by the application to oatoh men as .hef came out of the coal pit and tempt thm to dnuk.

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