Licensing Bill.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXIX, Issue 190, 13 August 1895, Page 2

Licensing Bill.

Mr Buiek will move to add to the Government's Licensing Bill in Committee that " a licensee shall have one bar only on his licensed premises, and no liquor shall be sold or exposed for sale except in the said bur, but such provision shall not prevent the licensee from supplying liquor from the said bar to persons in other rooms of the said licensed premises." He also wishes to have it enacted that " any traveller entering or beine; found on any licensed premises within a distance of five miles of other licensed premises lie may have called at for the purpose of refreshment, unless for the purpose of business or as a lodger, shall ba liable to a penalty." Mr \V Hutchison also wishes to add to the Hill new clauses providing that. "No publican's or accommodation license shall he granted hereafter to any person in Irespect of premises upon or attached to which there is a billiard room and a billiard table" ; that "no woman other than, and unless she is, the licensee shall be permitted to sell intoxicating liquor in the bar of any licensed house" ; that " no licensed person shall supply intoxicating liquor or knowingly allow the same to be supplied (whether by way of sale or otherwise and whether for consumption or off the premises) to any woman or to any person apparently under the age of sixteen years of either sex" ; and that '' the bar of every licensed house shall be closed from one o'clock on one af'ernoon of every week, on the day fixed as the weekly half -holiday for shop's and other places of business in the town or district respectively.