THE PROHIBITION QUESTION

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 8097, 23 March 1905, Page 5

THE PROHIBITION QUESTION

Movement in New South

Wales

Legislation Likely to be Passed.

(Received This Morning, at 12.S a.m.)

Sydney, Last Night.

The Prohibition Part} , have asked the Chief Secretary to include the following provisions in the new Liquor Bill: —Right of veto, by a simple majority, without, any form of compensation, of the issue of all liquor-selling, effective closing of hotels on Sundays and election days, and closing on week nights at the same hour as ordinary businesses, prohibition of the sale of liquor to persons under eighteen,non-employmentof barmaids, abolition of storekeepers' licenses placing clubs on the same footing as hotels, substituting elective Licensing Committees for Licensing Benches. Mr G. J. Bruce said his experience of prohibition in New Zealand was that it had proved the only effective method of dealing with the traffic. Hon. J. A. Hogue, Colonial Secretary, promised that some of the suggestions would be included in the Bill; the others would have to come gradually. In regard to barmaids, unless-there were conditions affecting health attaching to the occupation, it was unsound to argue that the employment of women was wrong. To his mind there were stronger temptations to go astray in some other walks of life than behind the bar. Barmaids were better paid, therefore more independent and better able to look after themselves than women in some other callings.