"A BOLT FROM THE BLUE."

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 993, 7 December 1910, Page 4

"A BOLT FROM THE BLUE."

* " DIFFICULTIES OF HOTELKEEPERS. ;By Tclesraph—Special Correspondent.) Auckland, December G. At the quarterly meeting to-day of the Auckland Licensing Committee, the police report concerning the City Hotel (licensee, "Walter Stimpson) and the Globe Hotel (licensee, John Ernest Parker) stated that the houses were frequented by women of a low- class. Mr. J. A., Quinn appeared for Mr. Stimpson. Sub-Tnspec.tor Hendry remarked that inspecting polico officers had found women of low class in the hotels drinking. Tho effect of this could only lie to bring meh of lower class about the houses, and •to make the houses haunts for idle, disorderly people. He suggested that tho licensees could get over the difficulty by refusing to sell to women any drink for consumption on the premises. , ■Mr. Quinn said that the complaint had come to his client as a boH from the blue. He urged that Mr. Stimpson was a proper man to conduct a hotel, and that no licensee could possibly distinguish the reputable from the disreputable woman. Mr. Parker appeared in person. He had had the same difficulty as that mentioned by Mr. Quinn, and ho had decided to adopt tho suggestion offered, by tlie sub-inspector. The Bench were satisfied with the explanations offered.