THE LIQUOR LAWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 261, 2 October 1936, Page 9

THE LIQUOR LAWS.

LICENSES FOR HOSTELS. A QUESTION OF POLICV. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Oct. I. The desirability of licenses being granted to hostels at 6cenic resorts to sell liquor was stressed when Rev. C. Carr, chairman of the Public Petitions Committee, reporting in the House of Representatives this afternoon on petitions praying that such licenses should be granted, recommended that the petitions represented matters of policy and should be referred to the Government for consideration. Mr J. O’Brien suggested that the redistribution of licenses would be one way out of the difficulty, and he and Mr W. A. Bodkin both said hostels would be much greater attractions to tourists if licenses were granted. New Zealand could not properly develop its tourist traffic unless hostels were granted licenses. Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates said he thought that this was a matter in which the Government should take some action. He had attempted to do something, but had been defeated. He thought hostels should be able to offer to their guests all they should require, and he said the question of liquor versus non-liquor should not come into the question at all, as hostels were in out of the way places.