RESTRICTED HOTEL HOURS

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLXI, Issue 15076, 23 June 1942, Page 3

RESTRICTED HOTEL HOURS

MUST CLOSE TWO HOURS ON SATURDAYS. Electric Telegraph—. Press Association WELLINGTON, June 22. Retail hours for the sale of liquor in future will lie from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. except on Saturdays, when hotels must close Tor two hours between 2 and 4 p.m., according to the Licensing Act Emergency Regulations which were gazetted to-day. They come into force immediately. Licensees will be required to keep a register of lodgers, and orders are to be signed for all drinks ordered by lodgers after hours. The police may apply to a magistrate for cancellation of a publican’s license, and the magistrate may cancel it and disqualify the premises for a period of not more than two years. No intoxicants shall be consumed in railway trains, rail cars, tramsomnibuses, service-cars, or trucks, or taken on to such vehicles for consumption, and no public vehicle may be used for carrying liquor for Maoris in no-license areas. The existing provision restricting the sale or supply of liquor to soldiers other than for consumption on the premises is now made to apply to all the Services, and where a naval, military or air authority has declared in writing any licensed premises out of bounds the publican i is laible to a fine for supplying liquor to any member of that force. With a proviso that existing contracts may be carried on until August 31, the newspaper advertising of liquor is prohibited except for a size of two inches by two and a-half inches, and no advertisement shall contain matter calculated to encourage drinking among women. The screen or radio advertising of liquor is prohibited. Tt is now an offenc© to sell mat-, erials packed, measured, compounded or designed to enable others than licensed brewers to make intoxicating liquors, and bonstables may search for sly grog without a warrant. Licenses may b© voluntarily suspended for revival after the war, and licensees who are performing a national service may transfer their licenses to their wives with the consent of the licensing committee.