HOTEL LICENCES

Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23970, 10 June 1943, Page 3

HOTEL LICENCES

MEETING OF COMMITTEE Adverse comment was made on the conduct of the Excelsior Hotel, at a meeting of the Christchurch Licensing Committee yesterday, when an application .for a transfer of the licence was asked by Randolph Vivian Eustace Waldron to Albert Jack Empson. Mr E. C. Levvey, S.M., presided, and with him were Mr H. Holland, Mr W. E. Simes, Mr F. F. Wauchop, and Mr W. G. Wright. Inspector W. E. Packer, who represented the police, said there had been disgraceful behaviour at the hotel during one week-end. A man had been in such ■A state- of intoxication that he did not know whether he was on the top floor or „in the basement. A man had been injured, but no explanation had been forthcoming. A' man, said to be an assistant manager, had been disqualified from' holding a licence ■ for five years, and he still had four years and nine months to run. A person of that calibre was not fit to hold even a position as porter. Mr A. C. Brassington, who appeared for the applicant, said he had no knowledge of the circumstances of the case. The application was granted. New licences were granted as follows: Maurice Bernard Lawrence (Club Hotel), James Neil Clarke (Coker's), Albert Jack Empson (Excelsior), George Edward Talbot (Market), Mary Elaine Joyce (McKendry’s), Frederick Arthur Cook (New Albion)? John Young (New City), Leslie Guy Marston (New Railway), Osborne McQueen (Royal), Francis Claude Dunlevey (Southern Cross), Norman Wray Millner (United Service), Wanda Renata Ernestina Massetti (White Swan), Felix Augustine Siegert (Zetland). Renewals of licences were granted to the following:—Dennis Coffey (Caledonian), Charles Clark (Carlton), Gerald Patrick Goulding (Central), Arthur Harvey (Clarendon). John Sweeney (Crown), Catherine Young (Dominion), Thomas Aspell (Eastern), Victor Camden Constant (Embassy), John Watt (Foresters’), James Stanley Patterson (Gladstone), James Crofford Wallace (Grand), Percy Curtis (Gresham), Herbert Leslie Stafford Smith (Grosvenor), Joseph Patrick Goulding (His Lordships), Robert John Dunlop (Imperial). John Michael Coffey (King George), Oliver Francis Watson (Lancaster Park), David Edmonds (Masonic). Charles Archibald Welsh (New Wellington), Alfred Barrett (New Zealander). Benjamin Perry (Occidental), Leo Marcus Gregory (Oxford), Myra Ethel Mercia Pearce (Papanui), James Haywood Franks (Prince of. Wales), George Leslie Cower (Provincial), William James Maloney (Royal George), William Alonza Morris (Sandridge), Vincent Stewart Goulding (Shades), Kathleen Bridget Reardon (Star), Hugh Campbell Steel (Star and Garter), William Ewart Donnlthorne (Storey's), James Mcßeath MacKenzie (Tattersall’s), William Edward Stickings (Waltham), * Thomas Arthur Cloudseley (Warner's), Edward Alfred Gillman (White Hart). Wholesale licences were renewed as follows:—Baltins Breweries (N.Z.), Ltd.. Bishop and Co., Ltd., Frank A. Cook, Ltd,, Frederick Cross and Sons, Dalgety and Co., Ltd., Fletcher Humphreys and Co.. Ltd. (2), Maling and Company, Ltd., New Zealand Breweries. Ltd.. Quill, Morris (1936), Ltd., James Shand and Co., Ltd.

Natiye Medical Practitioner Geoffrey Kuper, a former student of the Cathedral Grammar School in Christchurch, who has been awarded the Empire Medal for gallantry in the Solomon Islands. A native of Santa Anna, he was in Christchurch from 1931 until 1934, and distinguished himself at the Grammar School in cricket and football, in tennis, and as a, runner. He was a representative schoolboy cricketer against Otago. N.M.P. Kuper graduated from the Suva Medical School, Fiji, in 1938 and since the war has been performing special duty for the Solomon Islands Administration. He is 26 years old.