NBWTA Report 1903-062
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118 119 tor the Colonies, the Right Honourable Joseph Chamberlain, despatched an official reply to the effect that Her Majesty would not agree to the proposals. 1901, recommended the retention of twelve of these licences, but an amendment re-affirming the policy of letting the licences lapse was carried by sixty-seven to forty-one votes— thus again setting a brilliant example to municipal authorities throughout the country. In 1898 the London School Board passed the following resolution :—‘ That a communication should be made to all “the Licensing Justices within the jurisdiction of the Buard, “expressing the Board’s strong condemnation of the sale of ‘intoxicating liquors to children of elementary school ave Retailers’ and Spirit Grocers’ Beer the In 1900 Licences (Ireland) Act gave full discretion to the licensing authority to refuse all new applications for such licences, and required that all applications for such licences should be made at the Annual Licensing Petty Sessions, any resident or property owner of the parish having power to oppose. The Inebriate Act Amendment (Scotland) Bill made some slight changes in relation to the raising of revenue for Inebriate Homes. There was also a Finance Bill which, among other things, imposed an additional tax of 6d. per gallon on spirits and a shilling per gallon on beer. The Expiring Laws Continuance Bill, which continues the Irish Sunday Closing Act, was passed. As a result of the General Election of 1900, the United Alliance reported that 300 English and Welsh Kingdom candidates promised to support the veto, and that 143 of these were elected ; while of the seventy-two members returned for Scotland thirty-eight were Vetoists, and of the thirty members for Wales twenty-eight were pledged to the veto. During that year (1900) the abandonment of metropoli- Council, when County tan liquor licences by the London licensed premises were acquired by the Council for improve- ments, was a policy which was continued by that body in their great scheme for making a noble avenue from Holborn to Thirty-four of the abandoned licences were on the Strand. Earl Grey, on behalf of the new thoroughfare. this of the site Reformed Public-houses Trust Company, applied for the Council to hand over to the Trust a number of these licences, and offered to repay from the surplus profits the original out- lay of the Council in acquiring these licences, or to devote the surplus profits to public purposes approved by the Council. The Council Improvement Committee, on January 21st, =" During the operations of the Army in the Sudan the Sirdar excluded all intoxicating liquors from those who were engaged in the campaign. The Sale of Intoxicating Liquors to Children Act was passed. Originally it aimed to prohibit the serving of intoxi- cants to children under sixteen years of age, but it was after- wards altered in Committee and the Bill was amended so that children of any age can still be served with liquor provided it is in a corked and sealed vessel, containing not less than the reputed pint. The following are the full particulars of the Act :— (1) The Intoxicating Liquors (Sale to Children) Act of 1886 is hereby repealed. (2) Every holder of a licence who knowingly sells or “delivers, or allows any person to sell or deliver, save at the ‘residence or working place of the purchaser, any description “of intoxicating liquor to any person under the age of fourteen ‘years for consumption by any person on or off the premises, ‘excepting such intoxicating liquors as are sold or delivered “in corked or sealed vessels in quantities not less than one “reputed pint for consumption off the premises only, shall be “liable to a penalty not exceeding forty shillings for the first “offence, and not exceeding five pounds for any subsequent ** offence, and every person who knowingly sends any person “under the age of fourteen years to any place where intoxi- “cating liquors are sold, or delivered, or distributed for the ‘* purpose of obtaining any description of intoxicating liquor “excepting as aforesaid, for consumption by any person on or “‘ off the premises, shall be liable to like penalties. “The term ‘corked’ means the insertion of a plug or “stopper which prevents the abstraction of liquor, whether it ‘“‘is made of cork or wood or glass, or some other material. ‘The expression ‘sealed’ means being secured with any “ substance without the destruction of which the cork, plug, or “stopper cannot be withdrawn. ‘©(3) For the purposes of all legal proceedings under this “ Act, this Act shall be construed in England as one with the “Licensing Acts, 1872-1874; in Scotland as one with the “Licensing (Scotland) Acts, 1828-1897; and in Ireland as one ‘with the Licensing (Ireland) Acts, 1833-1900. “*(4) (Clause relating to penalties in Scotland deleted.) “(s) This Act may be cited for all purposes “ Intoxicating Liquors (Sale to Children) Act, 1gor. as the |