Evil of Bogus Drinking Clubs Finally to be Tackled
Saturday 18th
October 1936
The government’s legislative
programme for the upcoming Parliamentary session was beginning to take shape
ahead of the King’s speech at the State Opening on 3rd November, the
traditional forum for a formal announcement. The main thrust of the measures concerned
the economy in one way or another. Coal-mining royalties, the imports of
chilled and frozen beef, and the pensionable age for blind people would all
feature. But it was not all deep seriousness. Space would be found for the
national scheme for physical training, beloved of Neville Chamberlain.
And, of course, the “evil of
bogus drinking clubs” established to flout the law on licensing the sale of
alcohol was to be tackled. A private member’s bill to this effect had been
withdrawn from the previous session on a government promise to legislate. Backsliding
was not an option.
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