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or three years. The existing Licences have a year to run
and I shall report to Your Lordship in due course what
:
action, if any, the Board when constituted decides to
adopt in this connection.
3.
Adjunct Licences have in the past
led to some abuse by evasion of the principle on which
they are granted viz.:- that liquor shall only be sold in
conjunction with food. They are now divided into 2 classes
- Hotel-keepers' Adjunct Licences and Restaurant Adjunct
Licences with new conditions designed to prevent these
abuses. A Dealer's Licence is substituted for Wholesale
and Grocers' Licences, and the sale and importation of*
liquor on commission without a licence is prohibited in
justice to those who pay the licence fees. The scale of
fees for the various licences for sale of European
liquors has been revised in order that the incidence upon
the large and small houses respectively may be more
equitably proportioned.
The amount of the fee for an
Adjunct Licence is no longer based on the annual valuation
of the premises, but is a fixed sum which is made much
higher for Licences in the City of Victoria than for those
in other localities. Not only is this more equitable in proportion
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