THE PREMIER AND THE LICENSING QUESTION.
I [BY TELEGRAPH. —press ASSOCIATION.] Dunedin, Sunday. In reply to a deputation of Good Templars, asking for an amendment of the Licensing Act and the Railway Act, the Premier said he thought it quite reasonable that the supply of liquor to children should be prohibited. He could not, however, pledge himself to move in that direction this session. Regarding the railway licenses he thought every possible provision would be made to restrict the supply of liquor at stations to travellers, but they had no moral right to say that a man who wished a glass of beer should not have it, He could hardly conceive any case in which a club license should be granted to a house which had been refused an ordinary license. The Government had no intention of proposing the establishment of distilleries, but he was not prepared to commit himself to the extent of saying that such a proposal might not come to be made. After the experience of past years, however, he did not fancy it would be countenanced by the House.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9029, 16 April 1888, Page 5
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