THE LICENSING BILL.
COMMENTS BY MR. BALFOUR.
P.t elegtjph.—Press Association.Copyright. London, August 2. The Prime Minister (Mr. Balfour), writing in reply to a correspondent, eulogises the Licensing Bill. Ho says though, ib is a measure for reducing the number of public-houses and for bettering the conditions under which the trade is carried on, it does not preclude further legislative changes. Many reformers, lie says, are irreconcilable, because they adhere to some vast and impracticable ideal; others would transfer to the sellers of drink sentiments of moral reprobation, which might more properly be reserved for the immoderate consumer. All lovers of justice and temperance should support the present practical Bill, as it ensures more in the direction of licens- ' ing reform than Parliament hereto- £ fore has been able to accomplish.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12625, 4 August 1904, Page 5
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