LICENSING REFORM.
DEPUTATION TO PREMIER. (Press Association.) WELLINGTON, July 26. A large and influential deputation from the King Country waited on Mr Massey to-day, urging that the licensing pact made with the Maoris in 1884 should continue to be respected.
Mr Massey said he recognised the difficulty about the pact, and was not prepared to suggest a way out. He was as keen as anyone in maintaining good faith, and unless there were good reasons to the contrary that applied to the pact. He did not expect any licensing legislation to go through this session, but he believed the time had come for the drastic reform of the liquor traffic in the interests of the public.
He would not go into details, but he did not think the present state of affairs could continue. If it was going out well and good, but if it was not we should have something a great deal better than we have now that would take legislative effect when the opportunity offered.
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Thames Star, Volume LVII, Issue 15887, 27 July 1923, Page 5
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