LICENSING COMMITTEES

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 526, 5 June 1909, Page 5

LICENSING COMMITTEES

KING COUNTRY LICENSES GRANTED

(B* .TELEQBAHI—PBZSS ASSOOIATtOR.)

f;>-.;,.V:, ': J Now Plymouth,.June i. ■ Some little*time ago, in defending, a! man at; Waitara,. charged with /carrying j' on, a 'traflio in liquor in. , a Drohibited'.area; in the King Country, Mr/QuttUdmj'of New Plymouth,: advanced' the:: argument that certain'portions of the King Country, alleged to be Native land) and;as such in the.'pro'hibitecl'area\in regard to the liquor traffio, were not Native land: at all, having been made Crown lands by : later proclamation; The Magistrate, upheld the contention, and, ;as a result, the Taumaninui Licensing Committee, at .its annual meeting at Waitara ■to-day, dealt/'with .eleven; applications for .wholesale licenses; in districts in the prohibited / are'a. . Of these, one application came from Raetihi, throe from Ohmkitne,■:,four.-, fr,om Rangataua, and' one V.each from..;;'Waitara.; Mokau; : and Awakino/., the two latter :being "for renewals of lioerises ;issued, just , .after;.the Magisterial decision. ;-. Counsel were present from New Plymouth, Haivera, Palineretonj and Eaetihi, aiut'jarge-.ly-signed> memorials in. opposition , .;to flie. hoonses, signed by both Maoris apd- Europeans, were presented.; The hearing ocoupied till: late_ip -the evening, and it was eventually, deoidbd• to grant foar applications as follow:—-T.:P. Leonard (Raetihi);,' J. Cody (Ohakune); Loftus Boyd (Rangataua); vand M; : Lund :(Waitara).;'; ". The . two r'enowals mentioned w4re also .granted, and. also" the usual hotel licenses in other portions of the ■electorate." '■'.-,.- ■■■ ' . : :■■■.!■: ■ FIVE AUCKLAND HOTELS CLOSED. ; Ibt irr.Ecmirn— vvtsu hsocutiohi .'. ■ ; ; ;- • Auokland, Juno 4; The Auckland City Licensing Committeo decided to-night to close the following hotels: —Bricklayers' Arms.in Federal Street, owned by Campbell Ehreritried and Co.; Railway Terminus Hotel, Beach Road, lease held by Hancock and Co.; Newton Hotel, Karangahapo Road, lease , held by Hanconk and Co.; Park Hotel, Wellesley Street, leaSo : held by Campbell and Ehrenfried; ' Fitzroy Hotel, Wakefield Street, owned by tho GreatNortnern Brewery. The maximum number of hotels which thb committee had' power to close was 14, and the minimum three. The brewers, estimate tho loss< (as between the value of tho places named as hotels, and'tholr value,;<as..: unlicensed houses) at between £16,000 and. £18,000. [I;-.;..;..., •;. ™ • ELEVEN O'CIiOCK EXTENSIONS ; ■ ,■ ;• .•■■ BEFUSED.; y: ■■'■ : '. (DT.mSOSArH—PEESS iISSOCIATJON.) m. ; 'ir * , V- - : t J? ls °n 1 June 4. : - The Motueka Ltconsing Committee-to-^av unanimously refused eleven o'clock extensions.