LICENSING BILL

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 3, 27 July 1928, Page 2

LICENSING BILL

Tliougli there is no .sign of the licensing Bill promised for this session by the Prime Minister the subject) is kept thoroughly alive in the lobn and one interesting phase has developed, says a Wellington correspondent. jßoth branches of tho Legislature, responding ijh (invitations from the Empire Parliamentary Association, have nominated representatives of tho New Zealand Parliament to represent the Dominion at the coming conference in Canada. The choice was made largely, as a result of certain members’ ability to spare the time in election year, the only delegate appointed who will he prejudiced by absence being Mr. Jordan (Manukau). Tints there was no thouciit of the effect) of the Licensing Bill of these absentees, but the result shows that all) the delegates from the Lower House the Lion. W. Noswortby, Messrs. Jordan and T. lost A'otes to the Prohibition sloe-' tikni. The Minister of Labour, , tlhcl Hon. G. J. Anderson, who is stillin London, is another vote for the no-Ucense section, and Mr.'; Tap-ley was also counted with the majority of eleven which voted for Mr. M’Combs’s amendment to place the bare majority in the Bill introduced bv the Prime Minister. However, Mr Tapley is likely to he in his place/ before the subject comes up again, together with Mr Wilford and Sir Joseph Ward, who are not on tho' no-hcense section.