INTEMPERANCE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 5490, 21 June 1879, Page 6

INTEMPERANCE.

Tub following is a Bummary of the recommendations of the committee of the Home of Lords on Intemperance :— "1. That legislative facilities should be' afforded for the local adoption of the Gothenburg and of Mr. Chamberlain'g schemes or of Eome modification of them. ' "2. That renowns of beerhouses licensed before 1869 Bbonld be placed on the same footing as those of public-houses. "3. That in cases of decisions affecting the renewal of licences in Boroughs havino separate quarter sessions, the appeal should be to the Recorder, where there is Bueh a functionary, and not, as at present, to the County justices. "5. That it should be expressly enacted that justices should be authorised to refuse transfers on the same grounds of misconduct as those on which renewals of licenses are now refused. "5. That no renewal of a license from one house to another should be sanctioned without giving to the inhabitants of the locality to which the removal is proposed the opportunity of Btating their objections. "6. That no structural alterations of houses licensed for drinking on the premises having for their object increased facilities for drinking, should be made vithnut the previous approval of the licensing authority. "7. That a considerable increase should be made in licence duties. " S. That on week-days licensed houses in Bngland outside the metropolis should not be open before 7 a.m., and that they should be closed one hour earlier than at present in the evening. " 9. That licensed houses iu Scotland and Ireland should be closed one hour earlier than at present on week-days. "10. That on riund.iys licensed houses in in the metropolis should be open from 1 to 3 p.m. for consumption off the premises only, and for consumption on the premises from 7 to 11 p.m. That in other places in Kugland they should be open from 12.30 to 2.30 p.m. for consumption off the premises only, and for consumption on the premises from 7 to 10 p.m. in populous places, aud from 7to 9 p.m. in other places. " 11. That it should be made clear that even if a person professing to be a bona fide traveller has on the previous night lodged outside the three-mile limit, as defined by the Act, it still rests with the magistrate& before whom his case may be brought to determine whether he i 3 a bona fide traveller or not. " 12. That justices should have discretionary power of licensing music-halls and dancing saloons in the country, as at present in the metropolis, whether connected with public-houaes or not, and that all tuch places should be subject to supervision by the police. " 13. That certain serious offences, such as those connected in the first category of the Act of 1572, should entail the compulsory endorsement of the licences ; and that the treatment of constables should be added to the list of offences included in the second category. "14. That any person 'having or keeping for sale' any intoxicating liquor ■without a licence, should be liable to penalties of the same description and amount as those under the existing law for 'selling or for exposing for Bale,' aud that the powers of apprehension upon warrant in cases of illicit drinking, as in the Glasgow Local Act, should be generally applied. " 15. That the entering of liquor nnder some other name upon the bill of a shopkeeper holding a license to aell off the premises should be an offence against the licence punishable by immed ate forfeiture. "16. That a list of the convictions, kept by the justices, clerks, should be legal evidence of previous convictions. " 17. That all occasional licences to sell elsewhere than on licensed premises should be granted by two justices at petty sessions assembled. " IS. In Scotland the committee recommend that the amount of fines and the terms of imprisonement should be made to follow those of the English Act, and be, like them, progressive. That severer penalties should be imposed, as in England, on perton drunk, in charge of horses carriages, &c, and that publicans should be made liable to the same penalties for harbouring thieves, prostitutes, &c, as in England, under the prevention of Crimes Act. " 19. That the recommendations of the Royal Commission of 1877 for Scotland on grocers' licences should be adopted for Ireland as far as they may be applicable, and especially that spirits sh juld be sold in closed vessels only for minimum quantities. They also recommend that a qualification of valne should be required for a public-houses licence. "20. That in Ireland and in Scotland, as at present in England, no spirits should bo supplied to children under 16 years of age."