ADJOURNED LICENSING MEETING-.—Tuesday.

Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 426, 23 May 1871, Page 2

ADJOURNED LICENSING MEETING-.—Tuesday.

The meeting for the issue and transfer of publicans' licenses, adjourned from the 16th instant, was held at the Police Court at noon. There were present—Messrs. J. O'Neill (in the chair), O'Rorke, C. O'Neill, Pierce, May, M'Leod, W. A. Graham, and Styak, Justices. An application was made by James Poppleton for the issue of a license for his hotel, situated at Waikomiti. —Mr. Joy appeared for the applicant, Mr. Wynn appeared to oppose. —Mr. Joy urged that as two similar licenses had been granted on last Court day, this also should be granted, and at the same fee as last year, when the house was licensed as a bush hotel.-—Mr. Wynn argued that the Court was not competent to grant the license, the preliminaries requisite not having been complied with—the applicant not having given the necessary notices.—The Court decided that as the full Bench of nine on a previous occasion decided the question, the license should be granted.—Mr. Joy then applied for the issue of the license at the reduced fee, as for a bush license. —Mr. Wynn opposed, on the grounds that another hotel within two miles paid the full fee.—The Bench agreed to recommend the smaller fee. An application was made by John Greenway for a reconsideration of the decision of the Bench, refusing a renewal of license to the Carpenters' Arms, Grey-street, of which John Adams is the present occupant. —Mr. Wynft appeared for the applicant, and urged that the case was one of peculiar hardship, and explained that Adams had refused to allow the repairs to be made, and threatened to give the men iv charge who came to effect the repairs. -Adams was about giving up possession.—The Court decided to grant the license ; to issue only when the house is placed in such a condition as to satisfy the Inspector of Police. An application was made by Mr. Joy for the rehearing of the application of John Beck, that a license should issue to the Royal Oak Hotel, in Chapel and Cook-streets.—Mr. Joy presented a petition from 20 neighbouring residents, praying that a license be granted. . —The Court decided not to re-open the case. An application was made by Mr. Wynn on behalf of Benjamin Turner, for the re-con-sideration of the refusal of a license to the Royal Gecge, at Newmarket. Mr. Wynn explained that it was a case precisely similar to that of the Carpenters' Arms, the present occupant, whose tenancy is just expiring, having refused repairs to bo made. Mr. Inspector Broham having read his report on the house, stating that the building was a very old one, and iv such a state of delapidation that it required all to be taken to pieces and reconstructed. —The Court decided to grant the license, to issue on the requirements, as stated by Mr. Inspector Broham, having been fully complied with.