Alliance Objecting to Brewery Licence

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 722, 23 July 1929, Page 1

Alliance Objecting to Brewery Licence

OTAHUHU PROPOSAL CHURCH OPPOSITION Objections are being raised by the Auckland branch of the New Zealand Alliance and several churches in Auckland to the issuing of a licence for the establishment of a brewery at Otahuhu. A protest is being sent to thc "overnment. Wait‘emata Breweries, Ltd., propose to build a. brewery at Otahuhu, and strong opposition will be raised to, the issuing of a licence to the company. To The Sun today the secretary of the New Zealand Alliance in Auckland said the branch had decided to oppose the proposed brewery. ~ The Alliance’s attitude, 'he said, was that a brewery was an open warehouse for the sale of liquor. It also contended that a brewery in such a place as Otahuhu would offer facilities to the extensive travelling public on the Great South Road. The Minister 0: Customs, the Hon. W. B. Taverner, has already been asked by the Alliance from Auckland to give serious consideration to the grounds raised for opposition. The Alliance stated today that a brewery could sell two gallons or more of liquor from seven o’clock in the morning to six at night—longer hours than those allowed at a public hotel. This is regarded as a serious feature. Resolutions opposing the proposed licence have come to hand from Baptist and Presbyterian churches, while another objection has come from the Salvation Army. The Alliance understands that there will be a further protest from Methodists.