LIQUOR LEGISLATION

New Zealand Times, Volume XLV, Issue 10450, 1 December 1919, Page 7

LIQUOR LEGISLATION

N.S.W. ALLIANCE AND COMPENSATION. ■By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copywright SYDNEY, November 20. A meeting of. "ohe New South Wales Alliance resolved ■to absolutely refuse to accept the compensation clauses in the new Liquor Act, declaring that they are illogical and financially impossible, &nd make Prohibition absolutely impossible. BRITAIN TO CONTINUE CONTROL. Au**--raliaii «=i'. N.Z. C.vble Association. (Received November 30, 11 p.m.) LONDON, November 26. Replying to a teniperaribe deputation the Premier announced, that a bill was being prepared to continue liquor control. It includes the appointment of a commission to scientifically study the result of control and other temperance experiments. He had an open mind on prohibition, but thought it impossible to apply it to Britain. Its working in America should be carefully watched. In the New South Wales Legislative Assembly the Government's Liquor Amendment Bill was read, a first time. It proposes to extend 6 o'clock closing, suspend local option, reduce the number of licenses under a scheme similar to that operating in Victoria (including compensation for dispossessed licensees provided by the publicans themelves), and a referendum on the question of Prohibition.