BILLIARD-ROOM HOURS.
EXTENSION ASKED FOR,
(Per United Press Association.)
WELLINGTON, April 9. A deputation representing licensed billiard saloon proprietors asked the City Council to extend . tho hour of closing from 10 to 11 o'clock. Tho Council of Churches followed with a deputation opposing tho extension. The first deputation urged that 11 o'clock was the closing hour m Christchurch and Auckland, where tho fco was £1, ag./jjainst £5 in Wellington. - Rents also were much higher hero. The ministers' deputation urged that extension of the closing hour would tend to encourage gambling. Th 0 council promised to carefully consider the matter.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 14185, 10 April 1908, Page 5
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