NO LIQUOR ON SPORTS GROUNDS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 14531, 19 November 1910, Page 8

NO LIQUOR ON SPORTS GROUNDS.

HOW CLUBS ARE AFFECTED. [BY TELEGRAPH CORRESPONDENT.] Wellington, Friday. Mr. Oliver Nicholson, of Auckland, in an interview on the Licensing Act with a Wellington Post reporter, points out that certain clauses have been introduced into the present Aot which will effectually take away from the moderate man in no-lioense districts certain liberties which he has hitherto enjoyed. The clauses refer to places of common resort for the consumption of liquor in no-license district. "The true meaning of those clauses," said Mr. Nicholson, "is not at first apparent to the ordinary lay mind, but (hero can lie no question that the legal effect of the same is to prevent in a nolicense district the keeping and consumption of liquor in any chartered clubs, sporte, racing, bowling clubs, etc., and at any public or -public social gathering held outside tho limits of one's private residence. The moderate man in a no-license district in future will have to content himself with the liberty he has been graciously allowed to retain, namely, that of consuming liquor with his friends in his own private residence ami not elsewhere. Consequently, in future tho moderate man will have to wake up to tho true effect of the no-Jioetiso vote, which ho lias in the past so materially helped to increase by his support.