“DON’T WANT DRINKING SHOPS”

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 62, 7 December 1926, Page 6

“DON’T WANT DRINKING SHOPS”

ERECTION OF NEW HOTEL NO SMALL BUILDINGS ALLOWED Palmerston North, December 6. “Palmerston North is a growing place, and it is not the intention ol the committee to allow small hotels to be erected,” said Mr. J. L. Stout, S.M. at the quarterly meeting to-day of the Palmerston Licensing Committee, when counsel submitted for approval the plans in connection with the proposed erection in Cuba Street of the Clarendon Hotel. “It is absurd to come along with a thing like this,” continued. Mr. Stout indicating the plans. “The committee will not accord its approval to a build ing which is to have less accommoda tion than that provided in the present structure. In addition, there is no call for an hotel in the locality suggested.” Mr. M. H. Oram, who presented the plans, said he wished to make one or two points clear to the members of the committee. Mr. Stout reminded counsel that there was nothing before the committee- , , . ■ “You have not a hope of getting this through as it is,” he said. “The bedrooms are the size of boxes.” Mr Oram pointed out that there was a good deal of accommodation in the present hotel which was not used except at show time. Mr Stout: Then that is an argument for having the hotel cut out altogether. We do not want drinking shops,in the town. Counsel was advised to inspect the resolution carried bv the committee in regard to the matter.