NO-LICENSE & THE SALE OF WINE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIII, Issue XLIII, 10 February 1909, Page 4

NO-LICENSE & THE SALE OF WINE.

A LAW POINT. [United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, Tuesday. In connection with the Wellington rnesage to the effect that the Cover mipnt-'s legal adviser has expressed the opivcn that selling wine within a no-li>rise district appears to be illegal, the statement is discounted hy an Auckland \it:cultiirist. Seen to-day, this g.-ntl->;ri.i:i said that under the original Act the New Zealand wine industry wa" not affected at all. There war. t.r- de.-l.ired, a clause m that A--t- providing that nu-h wine ran be marie a;,. 1 v,ld in a "no liconce'' area. H- v.a= .-nam en th.- point, having taken three Ir-^al opinion 0 - on it. Ihe i-Ui'iw in question had never been repealed in any way. This fact wins to have been overlooked by people generally, including the Government's legal adviser. In any case, he said, it would not rdfec.t th:. growers if the manufacture and sale of wine was prohibited in such districts. The bulk of the graphs grown would always be sold as table grapes, which paid bettor, < nyhow It the wine industry was shut down, therefore, all the growers had to do was to grow table grapes, and with the others make unfermented wine for sale to the temperance people.