LIQUOR FOR OHAI

Otago Daily Times, Issue 27570, 12 December 1950, Page 8

LIQUOR FOR OHAI

Trust Control Favoured PA INVERCARGILL, Dec. 11. The residents of Ohai favour trust control of the supply of liquor. At a poll held on Saturday, 18b persons voted for the trust control proposal and 67 voted against it. There were three informal votes. Slightly more than 50 per cent, of the total roll voted at the poll, which aroused greater interest than the local £>ody elections. The result of the poll does not in itself determine whether Ohai is to have trust control. It is merely an expression of opinion in favour of control by a trust. The Wallace Licensing Committee has been given authority by the Licensing Control Commission to issue a publican’s licence for the town, and the committee will decide to whom the licence is to be granted. The result of Saturday’s poll means that an application for the granting of a publican’s licence to a trust will be submitted to the Licensing Committee, and this will be considered by the committee, together with applications from private enterprise, if any. If the committee decides to grant the licence to a trust, it will not be a trust with the powers of the Invercargill Licensing Trust. An Ohai trust would be a body holding a publican’s licence, and would be subject to supervision by a licensing committee.