The English Licensing Bill

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVI, Issue 18, 7 May 1908, Page 30

The English Licensing Bill

The seco-nid reading of the |jEn-gjlisli Lacensing. vßill was moved in the House of Commons on Wednesday, of last week.'- ' . • Cardinal Logw& and all the Catholic BisKops of I*elaml .strongly urged the members iof V the Irish Parliamentary party to support the measure. Unless amended, the bill will effect? a icompulsory reduction oU tiifl' flumber - of hcens'asj tiO'ccie for- 750 persons in a towfr., or one for. (every 400> in country 'districts^ and wall result fin._ a suppres^oiu^ about one-thdrd^of the whole. Compensation wall be paid, as (heretofore, from funds supplied by the trade during the next fourteen years, aiter which |no dlajim for coimpeinsiatdon will lie. The power of focal veto with regard to new licenses will be conferred on" the parochial (electors, and constables not in uniform should 1 have the -right of 'entry into all cluibs whether in London or elsewhere. *! ■

He went to the butcher ; also the baker ; He went to the grocer and cabinet-maker/; He even enquired of the new undertaker, And as^ed- the distiller and brewer ; - .. And all of them said That for colds in the head, ■ And the best for the chest as proven by test Was Woods' Great Peppermint Cure.

As--regards domestic servants (says the Christchurch '• Press.^ we' are-convinced th;at/ if suitable selected immigrants were brought out to the Colony" free, the result would benefit the whole community* At the present time there are simply not ettough domestic -:',ser- - vants la New Zealand to 'go round.' It isf^oV^ia'l question of the rate of wages, because, owing to :". the general reluctance of New-Zealand girls to 'go into service,' as it is called, the number available is insufficient" to supply the wants of - those' who can afford to pay them the fairly highvrate of wages prevailing. The consequence is, as we have -before pointed- out, that numbers of iNew Zealand wives ana mothers are overworked in a way that no trades union would tolerate, with any of its members, and many of them become nervous wrecks in consequence. -.. s