THE LICENSING BILL.
At a public meeting held at New Fly* mouth to discußS the new Licensing Bill, resolutions were passed to the effect that public-houses should be closed on election day; that licenses ' should not be transferred from one site to another; that the cumulative vote should be retained ; that proper supervision of hotels should be provided; that children under sixteen should not be supplied with liquor; that if prohibition were carried, liquor should not be sold in New Zealand waters ; that no license should be granted unless threefifths of the residents in the locality signed a petition in favour of it; that where reduction was carried the minimum should not be less than 25 per cent, instead of 5 per cent as proposed in the Bill.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 5337, 15 August 1895, Page 1
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128THE LICENSING BILL. Star (Christchurch), Issue 5337, 15 August 1895, Page 1
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