PARLIAMENT.
A RUSH OF WORK. KING COUNTRY LICENSES. SIX MONTHS' NOTICE TO QUIT. [by telegraph.— special correspondent.] Wellington, Monday. The King Country Licenses Bill, which was introduced to-day, provides that tho existing licenses shall* continue till December 31, 1910, and that no further licences be granted. In the House in the evening Sir Joseph Ward moved the second reading of the -at, which was agreed to after a brief debate. The Bill was taken in committee later in the evening. Mr. Poole moved an amendment providing for the determination of the licenses at the end of. the period for which they were granted. Mr. T. K. Taylor explained that the amendment meant" that the licenses would expire on June 30. Mr. Poole asked leave to alter his amendment so that the licensees should not have the right of renewaL The amendment was agreed to on the voices. The Prime Minister declined an amendment, proposed by Mr. Wright, providing for imprisonment as the punishment for sly grog-selling, and threatened if it was persisted in to drop the Bill. The Bill passed through committee.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14249, 21 December 1909, Page 6
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