LYTTELTON NEWS

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

LYTTELTON NEWS

, MAGISTRATE’S COURT Mr F. F. Reid, S.M., presided at the Lyttelton Magistrate’s Court yesterday. Alan Raymond Warren, for carrying two passengers on a motor-cycle, was convicted and ordered to pay costs. For failing to produce a driving licence, Vincent Hanstock was convicted and fined 10s and ordered to pay costs. For having no warrant of fitness the same defendant was convicted and fined 10s and ordered to pay costs. Licensing Committee For the first time on record, the Health Department had given the hotels in the district a clean bill of health, said the chairman (Mr F. F. Reid) at the annual meeting of the Lyttelton Licensing Committee held at Lyttelton yesterday. The police report showed that the conduct of the hotels had. on the whole, been satisfactory. There had been five convictions against licensees, and, although under the new regulations substantial penalties had been imposed, none of the offences was of a serious nature. In regard to the proposed rebuilding of the Lyttelton Hotel, which was destroyed by fire on Christmas Eve, a letter was read from the District Building Controller stating that, because of the present shortage of labour and materials, the application of the owners for a building permit was refused and the Controller suggested that a further application be made in six months’ time. Licences were granted as follows: — Ocean View "Hotel, Governor’s Bay (David Rogers); Cave Rock Hotel, Sumner (John Henry Grover); Heathcote Arms Hotel, Heathcote (Vincent Hector McDonald); British Hotel, Lyttleton (Robert Leslie Malden). The application for a licence for the Lyttelton Hotel (Duncan Cameron Macdonald) was adjourned for three months. Renewals of licences were granted as follows:—Marine Hotel, Sumner (Thelma Stone); Grand Hotel, Akaroa (Ernest Edward Nutt); Empire Hotel, Lyttelton (James Edmund Bisman); Woolston Hotel, Woolston, Charles Watkin Stafford); Mitre Hotel (Lyttelton), Charles W. P. Shearman; Madeira Hotel, Akaroa (William Ernest Swainson), Valley Inn, Heathcote (Jane Margaret James); Canterbury Hotel, Lyttelton (Lionel Maurice Denton); Royal Hotel, Lyttelton (Anthony Mason); Saxon Hotel, Lyttelton (Henry George Sc6tt); Albion Hotel, Lyttelton (Charles Edwin Quested); Metropole Hotel, Akaroa (Edward Charles Kotlowski). Applications for the renewals of the licences of the Crown Hotel, Duvauchejle Bay (Martin Henry Dunn), and the’Bruce Hotel, Akaroa (Samuel Hollander) were adjourned for three months. Accommodation licences were granted to the Hilltop Hotel, Barry’s Bay' (Henry James Bell), and the Wheatsheaf Hotel, Teddington (Mary Elizabeth Packer), the licence fees being fixed at £lO and £5 respectively. A wholesaler’s licence was granted to R. Powley and Company, Ltd,, Woolston. School Committee Meeting The resignation, for occupational reasons, of Mr G. Miller from the position of chairman, was received at the meeting of the committee of the Lyttelton Main School on Tuesday night with regret, and the committee’ decided to place on record its appreciation of Mr Miller’s services, Mr G. Ticehurst, was elected chairman.