HOTELS CLOSED TODAY FOR SEVEN HOURS

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 144, 14 March 1939, Page 5

HOTELS CLOSED TODAY FOR SEVEN HOURS

Hotels in the Hutt electorate will be closed for the .supply of liquor from noon till 7 p.m., because of the election for the Hutt Licensing Committee. The law, in distinction to the ordinary six o’clock and Sunday closing, is that it is not only the sale of liquor that is illegal but its supply. The same applies to the Wellington Suburbs electorate, which takes in part of Lhe Hutt Valley. IL is not an offence, however. to be found on licensed premises during the hours in which supply is forbidden, Mr. S. 11. Wood has been appointed pumping station engineer to rhe Lower Hutt Borough Council. Building permits in Lower Hutt for February totalled 27 of a value of £13,645; in February, 1938, the figures were 16 and £35,095. Twenty-five scooters and cubmistresses from the Manawatu were the guests of the Hutt Valley and Bays District officials at the weekend. A church parade was held at St. James’s Church, Lower Hutt, on Sunday morning and the jamboree site, 'Heretaunga, was visited iu the afternoon.

WHIPPET RACING The I’etutie Whippet Club's races on Saturda.v n«uJled:—. Miniature handicap: S. Marsh men! Great Memory, 1; Miss Scailc’s Betty Boop, I nip rovers’ race: Mr. Trotter's Tevan Lad, 1 ; .1. J’err<*tt‘s Post Card. 2. Lightweight handicap: P. Doyle’s Miss Hushabye, 1; ,1. A. Gough and I*. Dodge’s Housemaster, 2. Middleweig-ht handicap: 11. .Johnson’6 Tray Bit, 1; Gough and Hodge’s Housemaster. 2. Second-class handicap: J. Perrclt’s Puritana, 1; N. Solomon’s Seaplane, 2. Open handicap: H. Johnson’s Tray Bit. 1; Mrs. J. Nicholas’s El Ku no, 2. Second-class hurdler; Mrs. 'l’. Magee’s Aunt Daisy, I : 11. Hailwood’s Fiji. 2. Sealed handirap. open: G. Tripp’< Busker Boy. 1 : Fiji. 2. Sealed handicap, second class: Puritana, J ; It. Walker’s Pay Boy, 2.