NEW ZEALAND ALLIANCE
DEPUTATION TO PREMIER [ Per Press Association. 1 WELLINGTON, June 13. A large deputation from the annua] meeting of the New Zealand Alliance waited on Air Forbes with reference to several aspects of the licensing laws. It was asked, among other things, that tho existing licensing laws should be consolidated into two sections, one dealing with the referendum and tho other with regulative provisions that the law relating to illegal trading should be more rigidly enforced; that the Alini.ster of Customs should bo empowered to refuse to grant a license for a brewery; that motorists found drunk in charge of vehicles should be more sternly dealt with; and that the Government should undertake educative work in regard to the effect of alcohol. In reply Air Forbes said that it was his intention to introduce legislation next session giving tho Government power to control tho issue of licenses for breweries and distilleries. The Alinistcr of .Justice was endeavouring to enforce the laws relating to the liquor traffic. So far as intoxicated motorists were concerned, he agreed that the punishment imposed on them could not be too drastic.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 139, 15 June 1931, Page 7
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