PACKET LICENSES.
STRINGENT PROVISIONS.
(From our Parliamentary Reporter:) WELLINGTON, this day. One of the important Bills brought down by the Government -this session is the Packet Licenses Bill, which was read a first time m the House of Representatives yesterday. In the first place it proposes to transfer the license from the master to the owner of the vessel, and gives the Governor (which is of course the Government) power by order m Council to make regluations restricting tho issue of licenses to certain classes of vessels. The Bill goes on to Erovide that when a packet license has een granted no liquor may be supplied on board to an intoxicated person; that no liquor shall be sold, supplied or given to an officer or member of the crew without the written authority of the captain;, and that no passenger may supply liquor ■to the captain or officer or member of the. crew on the vessel. Anyone who commits a breach of the provision of "the Act is liable to a fine not exceeding £20, and if the offender is a servant of the licensee the licensee will be deemed to be equally guilty and liable to the same fine. The Bill _is the outcome of the Kia Ora wreck enquiry.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 11127, 16 November 1907, Page 3
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211PACKET LICENSES. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 11127, 16 November 1907, Page 3
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