NO-LICENSE CONVENTION.

Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 20054, 14 April 1914, Page 5

NO-LICENSE CONVENTION.

PROPOSED LEGISLATIVE ALTERA-

TIONS.

(Per Proas Association.)

AUCKLAND, April 13. Addressing the Auckland Provincial No-License Convention this afternoon, R&v. J. Dawson (secretary of the Alliance) urged that several drastic alterations in the licensing laws should, be included in the legislative programme of the Convention. The Convention should press for the deletion, of clause 18 in the 1910 Act, required four years' delay after national pnoJixbition had been carried and suggested that six months between "the poll and June 30th was all the time really necessary. He advocated that the term "bar" or,"public bar" in section 4 of the Act should be so defined as to limit the sale of intoxicating liquor to one place openings out on to.a street. He urged that the private bar should be done away with. The law should be amended making the closing hour 6 o'clock on five days of the week instead of 10, and 1 o'clock on the half-holiday. They should agitate for the entire abolition of barmaids and of. licenses for river boats. The sale of wine should be confined to licensed persons and wine-makers should only !be allowed to sell to licensed persons. The Convention should press for the imposition of imprisonment without the option of a fine as punishment for sly-grog Belling. The speaker urged a legislative amendment so that a proclaimed area, which practically meant the King Country, should be brought into line with a no-license district under section 37 of the Act. This would prevent the laying in of liquor to be drunk by companies of men.

The Convention adopted resolutions demanding the foare majority on all polls on liquor questions, and urging that national prohibition should com© into force on June 30th succeeding the poll at which it is carried.