HOTELS AND LICENSES.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 526, 5 June 1909, Page 10

HOTELS AND LICENSES.

:TWO-WELLINGTON SOUTH APPLIOA- . ; TIONB REFUSED..,. - boutji Licensing... Committee was held yesterMi 7* it . 6tei were P^ 86 "' •• Dr. *•to • I'i • (c^air J??S)> *™ Messrs, R. A. Wnght,,M.P., J. Collie, J. Reid, W. J. Persons, and R. M'Keozio .:...■■:-. __ The' clerk of the committee,' Mr, A. H Holmes, formally notified tho carrying of' No-Licenise in the licensing district. ■ Tho application of Louis Sweet to transfor tho Grosvenor : Hotel- license, .to Samuel Aitken was granted. ■ ■'•■■■' , of llr Aitken, the licewee of the Grosvenor Hotel, Mr. Peacock applied for the renewal of the license. He explained thatJie had been instructed to make the an-' 'plication. :. : '■;,■:,. r. , ~■; ■', . Dr. M'ArtHur: It ie beyond ouipower. i ".-/HouJdsworth/apph'ed for the renewal of the license.of/the Newtown Hotel. ;:.TJus was ako'rcfuEed, i;:-.!-.-.; ... :/;-:/../.\\, AT; HAISTINGSi. ■,/',: ; (bt TKtjaßirn-eniciiLpoattEspoNDKrrj "': „." "','"'■ Hastings,' June 4. ' The annual meeting of the Hawke's Baj : Committoo was held to-day, Mr. 3. E. M'Oarthj;, S.M., presiding.'' Transfers wore granted in the..cases of the Oarfton qlub and FornhiU , Hptels l Renewals were applied for ■ and granted for all the other Jiotola m the district, with the exception of tho Petane Hotelj the application concerning mi. 1 i waß ad J° l,r ' l ed for three months! Wholesale licenses ■ were granted to Messrs. Williams and Kettle, Edward tfewbigin, and Thos..'Morgan." ; ■.. ... . . V,•■:;>•'•'■• : ito power. ;■■■ ■ ■•''■..".,' ,; ■ ' . Core, June 4. "iir At Tr °j , Court,: before ■iUr. JJenrick/S.M., George Dempster (Mr. Indor) applied for: a publionn's lioenso for the "Woodlands Hotel, recently taken into tho Mataurn No-License, district, from Awa•ru(i. .Tho only member of tho last Licensing Oonunittoo who presented himsolf was Mr, Forsyth (Wyndham)., Mr. Indcr was about to point out that another-member was prosent when Mr, E, 0. Smith, solicitor, interjected that tho person'in question was an objector,' ■•-.,..... . , - ;'. . Mr. Inder: Are yon appearing'to object? You have not.lodgedan objeotion/: ; Mr. Smith: A lot of things have not been done. The. meeting-of the oommittee has not been advertised for one thing. Mr. Smith, contended that the Magistrate had power to deal with the application. . Mr. Inder submitted that the old commit' fee. was in existonco until ita successors were appointed and took office, ■ . The position was becoming involved when the Magistrate said that as far as he Could boo there waano Court ■present at all, and he.' had no power to. doal; with tho application.-. ; If; he ■' added, the licensee, oontmues business after' June 80 he will run "the risk of to eettle the" question. ■ .•*;■'■■ . ■■•■;'■■■: 'REFUSED:-■-'-■; ;:'■•:■.:■ ■' ■". '. " Oamaru, June i. Tlio Oanianj Lioeiising Committee mei to. day. Applications for renewals were mdde in rospeot to three hotels in .the Hampden ai»d\Falmerston portions of the district, counsel arguine that the recent poll was invalid because-tho.electors were not given an opportunity tovoto on threo important issues, but only as to whether licensees should or should not be restored, as in a No-License area, Tho committee unanimously refused all applications. ■■ *.' WHOLESALE LICENSES, Waltara, June/4. At a meeting of tho Licensing Comniitteo to-day, wholcsalo liquor licensos wpre granted to Loftus Boyd (Rangataua), J, Cody.(Ohakune), and Leonard (Raetihi). '■