Liquor at the Exhibition.
The Cabinet rightly decided that the (|iiestioii of allowing the sale of liquor at the Kxhihition lav with the( ’liristchureh Licensing Committee, and therefore declined to deal with the matter. The Licensing (’ommittee has met, and has given its verdict against the sale. Setting that the ( ommittee was elected by the Christchurch people as an avowedly Temperance one, it was not to he expected that additional facilities would he granted for obtaining alcohol. Some have argued that the
Exhibition is a colonial one, and that the question should be looked at from the colonial standpoint, not from that of merely one Licensing District.
Granting, for the nonce, this position, what then ? Taken as a whole, the people of the colony, by a substantial majority, at the last Licensing Poll, declared in favour of No-License. I/ioking, therefore, at the question both locally and colon ially no other course was open to the Committee than to refuse a license.
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White Ribbon, Volume 12, Issue 136, 15 September 1906, Page 7
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