THE DROUGHT.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 546, 29 June 1909, Page 6

THE DROUGHT.

PROM LICENSE TO NOH.ICENBE. THE EXIT OF ELEVEN HOSTELRIES. ■With the booming of 10 o'clock to-morrow night, tbo licenses of cloven hotels in the electorates' of. .Wellington South, and ■Wellington Suburbs, will boaso to exist, in accordancbwitlr tho decision of the electors at tho local option poll. Seven hotels,arc affected in the Suburbs, and four in Wollingtoii South, the total capital value of tho suburban houses being, approximately, £16,964, and in Wellington South, £14,148. Tho hotels to be closed, and the licensees, aro as under, the names of the owners being given in parontheaos:— WELLINGTON S^BUBBS. Island Bay Hotel (Hamilton Gilmor), lira. K. Wilkinson. ffjlbirnie Hotol (Staples and Co., lessees), \V. S. Barr. Esplanade Hotel (Staples and Co.), Mrs. Ellen Prictor. . Railway Hotel, Johnsonvillo (Dwan Bros.), J. Ahlers. All Nations Hotel, Kniwana (Staples and Co.), Joseph Naylor. White~Horse Hotel, Ngahauranga (Jas. Footer), J. Shortis. Ngahauranga Hotel (Thos. Clapham). WELLINGTON SOUTH. Star and Gartor (Staples arid Co., lessees), H. Dooley. Grosvonor (T. G. McCarthy), Samuel Aitken. No»-tovni (T. G. M'Carthy), H. Gl Houldsworth. , Park (Staples and Co.), Julius Lntz. In the case of tho Star and Garter Hotel, tho position , ie rather peculiar, the house standing on tho boundary of the electoral district, at tho corner of Cuba Street and Webb Street. The western corner of Cuba Street and Webb Street, opposite the hotel, is still within the license area. i Links With the Past. With the chango of the old ordor associations of the past will bo conjured up in respect of several of tho .houses which aro, for tho timo/being, at least, to bo no inoro what they 'wore. The Ngahauranga Hotel has- earned a license under the Clapham sign for over forty years. Tho Johnsonvillo hostelry has to stretch back some fifty years into tho misty past to find the date of its original license, ljut liko sovoral of tho other houses that havo como under tho ban tho presont structure is not, of course, tho original house, timo having necessitated rebuilding. The.l J ark Hotel was originally licensed on Lambton Quay, and held sway in tho building now known as tbo Olago Buffet opposite tho police station. The Club Tap, The Criterion, and,the Wayerley were throe different names under which the old lioense flourished, and then after a hard legal battle the license was allowed to bo transferred to tho doomed Park, the laet shifted licenee of the kind.

; Kilbimie'e hostelry can be looked back on by many a sedato/householder whose youthful escapades are now only dim memories. Tho Sunday walk to Kilbiniio, the last outpost on tho east, was one of 'the most.popular tramps in the city up to a few years ago, whon-it was. decreed that the Sabbath traveller need do nioro -than travel three miles before ho could demand' what brand of liquid refreshment -he. , pleased..: Tho' trek to the Karaka Bay and Worser Bay wharves was a long ono in the,' olden days ' before Miramar waa a .flourishing suburb/ but the Kilbirhio' hostelry,took the sting;ont of the walk, although many of the week-enders' left more heavily, laden than they entored; ... , ' . - ; Island Bay has had ; ite upsv and downs since ,it was builtin tho early eighties, and many a Sunday.pilgrimage has been madoto this old. hostelry previous to the advent of :tho; electric tramcar, and even'the'bicycle. ' ' ! .." ': -■"' '■" . ,■ " •!' '. , Prohibition will be no new era for Newtownj.this part of the city having previously declared-for "dryness,", bnt, the present district.is l larger..than the old one". ... ''■•.". The ; V '■ So much for tho past, now for the future. Although _t3io liconßcs'are riot-to'exist in the two districts, named/,'residonts in both prohibited areas will still be, able .to : obtain liquor hr quantity,', although under a stringent.law.; It is/decreed,.firstly,' that no.person shall be permitted to 'solicit or receive any order, within the prohibited area, nor shall'any person send any package containing; liquor into 'the!district' unless, the package is labelled to show■• that it'' ■contains liquor. : i^'• -"-■ < >•■ ■'■ .•■ .: ...'.'■. ..;■■ ■:' ' "■ further,' any'person living within the prohibited area who prdere,liquor must, under a penalty of £20 for a firßfc offence, and a higher fine in casp of a later"- offerico, give notice' to -tho nerson froinl whom ho buys that he, lives' within a prohibited area. He must also; giv.o'Mb correct name and address, and the dealer selling the liquor is bound to notify, the. clerk: of. tho Magistrate's Court of.'.-the address of the person ordering.; the' 'liquor, and the quantity ordoredi- .■''■ V ; .'; . :. The. regulations for,, the '.purchase of a single'bottle, are. not so stringent.. A resident of a prohibited area may; in any ono day,, without the' vendor haying to notify the clerk of the Court, obtain.for has own use liquor hot, exceeding ono quart of wine or spirits or not exceeding one gallon of beer.-;;: ■: '.vV.:.-...'.,. .: ; . x \ .' , ;. ' ;... ." .■" r A.'.;;H. ■ piei-k of' the" SJVI. Oqurt, has "been appointed the clerk, to receive all statements of. entries of tSio nature and quantity of, liquor going into the unlicensed districts... The [Department has pro-, vided rregisterfoT all such districts throughout'the' Dominion, in which register; is to be recorded a statement^of all , liquor over the.limit set, sent into the district. This will mean that when.a dealer makes a sale he .will: enter it on a, sheets prescribed, : keep one copy for himself, and forward the othor to. the clerk;'of ■ iho,Court,, who will make 'the necessary, entries in his register, and so, keep a tally, which' should mako interesting reading alter the '.'dry , .' season has had a'lair-trial.'■■' ; . ; , .: .~ ;■':',:" '/'■■{■■ Progress o» No-License.;;:•■;',;,■/_' '■■■ ■ ■'; THe .olosure will be. applied to a total of 105 hotels' throughout tho Dominion,: 54 being in;th'e North Wand and 51; w the South. The details aro:-r- ' ■■■■'; ,'" ■' ;.-'■■ •' : --■'." •'■■•' Auckland ' City (Uednction), 5; Mannkau (Eednotionl 3; Parncll (Eednotion), 2; Ohine•muri (No-License), 14; Eden (No-License), i. .: Wellington South (No-License), i ; . Wellington; Suburbs (No-License); 7j Masterton (No- : License), 15. .-.''. '. .■• . . ■■•.-. ; , Bruce (No-License), 22; Taieri (EednctioriV 3;Dnnpdin City (Reduction), 10; Chalmers (Eednotion), 3;' Oamaru (result of additions to No-Liceasetarea),6.. ..' , ...... , ■■...■ In addition to' the above, six licenses' in Ashburton'ttßd ono license at Mataura are affected by inclusion' in No : Liconso areas. Licensos in Dunedin City have, been -reduced by 45; since 1893, as follows-—1893 (Reduction), 22; 1903 (Reduction), .13; '1909 (Reduction), 10.. : ..' ' .