PROHIBITION QUERIES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17347, 19 December 1919, Page 8

PROHIBITION QUERIES.

—.— ; THREE PER CENT. BEER. I BREWING AND STOCKING 1 In view of the possibility of prohibition being carried, quite a number of pointed » questions are being put as to its precise. effects. .-.-'• [The thing prohibited is "intoxicating k liquor" and the question has been raised , whether certain light beers come within . this description. The Licensing Act is ) somewhat vague on. the point. It says • ' i Intoxicating liquor" or "liquor" means 1 any spirits, wine, sle, beer, porter, cider; - perry, or other fermented, distilled', or , spirituous liquor of an intoxicating m. [ ture. This does not give much enlightenI meat, but the beer duty regulations* ar» I LS IM «r *? 8 P o * ll *"' «>ne .regulation , says Any fermented beverage containing hops, or any extract thereof, and con- ' taming more than 3 - per centum of ' M/ Pin b r deeme <*io be beer." - anv ™™n°K ls . adde , ds This means that moWf* tawing bop beer containing = pis C , ent ? m Proof spir^ without a license." From this Til appears "^^^^tim^^ol^ the law says:- "At all timS while ™ license exists i* New Zealand bv %&t nroSbiti^ er^S n fa favour of nattona! Kn Sf„l / h<rafe c ° ni P e Pßation it shall fie unlawful for any person to have in has possession for the" purposes of %£ or to import into New Zealand, or to manufacture, or sell intoxicaW UauS of any description?*■'■ This - "#*« gar It is Lawfnl to Therefore the home-made brew,if over 3per cent, would be outside the feT Perhaps, however, a lawyer, for si" standi fee, giveZothe^interprt "f -$ e I* Aether a stock ful for any person to hold I liquor «fosߣ • fJrZJnK? if 0 * L offenTe. P But"he door will be shut on -June 30 if ' nroM •. > • '■ Aft « tbatdate ifwl ■*■»•**£* to sen, or £ . out tney cannot be replenished. '' ,