LIQUOR AND REVENUE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12221, 24 April 1914, Page 5

LIQUOR AND REVENUE.

TIME LOJIT FOR LICENSES. (Special to the "Wellington Post.) Ohacawai. April 23. A request for tWibare majority and no time limit for the closing of hotels after the carrying of an issue at the polls was asked for by -a No-license deputation which waited 110011 the Prime Minister at Kaikohe yesterday. Mr Masscy explained that tho Government had already promised to introduce a Hill early next session reducing the majority required to carry national prohibition from 60 to 55 per r-ent. It was not n party question, and ho did not know whether t-lic* Bill would be favored by a majority of members. He pointed out that most members wero already pledged to some course of action en this matter. As to tho abolition of the time limit, he said that, whether the present time limit of four years was too long Or not, a certain interval was necessary in order that, the revenue of the Dominion, which (rightly or wrongly) now derived about £900,000 from the liquor traffic, might be adjusted.