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Liquor Laws
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A FTER deliberations extending over a long period—during which it was bogged down by draft legislation sent along by Can berra—the Norfolk Island Advisory Council finally got down in Jan uary to dealing with the proposed new liquor ordinance.
The Council has asked for some thing simple that will satisfy the Island’s specialised conditions and which will follow the lines advised by residents who filled in the questionnaire circulated some months ago.
The Council has recommended that; • The Administrator be the sole importer of liquor; • The Bond Store be the sole distributor: • But that approved clubs be allowed to sell liquor to financial members and that approved guest houses be allowed to sell liquor of all types to guests and friends of guests invited to partake of a meal, the liquor to be sold by the glass and served anywhere in the build ing at the discretion of the licencee.
The draft ordinance from Can berra provided for liquor being sold by the bottle at meal times and to be totally consumed at the meal.
This piece of bureaucratic inter ference seems, to Norfolk Islanders, to be completely in conflict with local drinking habits.
If the Minister for Territories approves of these suggestions, a Licensing Board of three will be appointed.