KING COUNTRY LIQUOR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 15, 5 June 1914, Page 5

KING COUNTRY LIQUOR.

RESTRICTIONS THAT DO NOT' -» RESTRICT. .n| CONFERENCE AT TE KUITJ. ."" 3 By Telegraph-Press Association Te Kuiti, Last Night., •$ A conference of the looal bodies • h»V!s the King Country to consider liquor •*> laws was held at Te KuitL Mr. J.'j Ormsby (Otorohanga) was chairman,"*; and other delegates were: Messrs B. ■? Martin (Te Kuiti), Allanson (Kaitieke)j -' Wilkie (Ohakune), Berry (Waitomojj -'} Boddy (Awakino), Sandison (Ohura), •[ and Short (Taumarunui). The ei»iui man referred to the fact of having bee»V;. connected with the placing of restric "• tions on the district. The condition* > had changed. The restrictions did not restrict, as had been fondly hoped by " the Maoris. They had to deal with ,; conditions which had arisen. Eur*. ! peans now outnumbered the Maoris ten' -i to one or more, and had a right to bo ? heard. ' - A motion was carried—"That tbk ' meeting, representing various local bo- ' dies of the Rohe Potae, unanimously re- »; solve that the restriction proclamation •.' made by section 272 of the Licensing. Act, 1910, be annulled." . , J Another motion in favor of municipal - * control of the sale of liquor in the «»•.' i trict was carried, also that a deputation' i wait on the Prime Minister on the oo- '.-, casion of his visit to Te Kuiti-on Juno *' 18; also that a deputation wait on the" "i Minister and Parliament during the'Vj forthcoming session. „ ',«!