LICENSED HOUSES

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2327, 8 December 1914, Page 9

LICENSED HOUSES

WELL CONDUCTED IN WELLINGTON. ■ The quarterly sitting of the Licensing Committee for the Wellington Licensing District was held yesterday. The Bench was occupied by Mr. W. G. Riddell, SIM. (chairman), and Messrs. R. Fletcher and W. Hellier. The chairman said that the report for tlie quarter showed that the position was' on the whole favourable. There were only two hotels that called for any remarks, and those were the Thistle Inn and the Royal Hotel. The remarks were that they were being indifferently conduoted. - The licensee of the Thistle Inn was penalised for an offence committed in his hotel recently, and all th'e committee wished to remark was that it was to be hoped that the licensees of those two' hotels would see that the hotels were conducted more carefully in the future. Otherwise the report was favourable. '"

■Mr. W. Perry, oil behalf of the licensee of the Royal Hotel, said that the superintendent's report concerned one occasion when two" porters we're fpund in the hotel after hours, and when they camo before the Court they pleaded guilty. "The other occasion was. the day before the troops went away? when a soldier was found.on the premises. Both oases wore exceptional. Hehad pointed out the necessity for the licensee to take care to prevent it in the future, and that would be done. Mr. Riddell: The committee think a warning will be sufficient. Transfers were granted in the following cases: —Caledonian Hotel,' David Sullivan to Elizabeth Mary Davey; ■Shepherd's Arms Hotel, Michael Joseph Brosnan to Annie Duggan.