LICENSING COMMITTEE MEETINGS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3711, 7 June 1883, Page 3

LICENSING COMMITTEE MEETINGS.

Auckland, This day

The City East Licensing Committece announced yesterday that they intended to compel the removal of old shanties, and that hotels should only be erected which were a credit to the city.

Wellington, This day

The Licensing Committee for Lambton Ward remarked yesterday of the frequency of the transfer of licenses, and said that in future they would bo careful in granting transfers. All present licenses were renewed, no restriction of hours being named. CiißiSTCiiußCir, This day.

The Rangiora Licensing Committee refused to grant any licenses for a later hour than 10 p.m., and the chairman said he hoped shortly to sec that hour adopted throughout the colony. The Licensing Court for South-east Christchurch refused to extend the hours beyond 11 o'clock. They also refused to license any new houses. Oamabu, This day.

At the meeting of the Moerake Licensing Committee ono of the country hotels was refused a renewal of its license.

Dunedin, This day

The Bell Licensing Committee intimated that they were unanimously in favor of closing all hotels at 11 o'clock, but, owing , to the action of other Committees, theyfelt compelled in justice to grant midnight license to all the houses in George -street. The Leith Committee granted 12 o'clock licenses in all except one case, even in out of the way localities. Invercargill, This clay.

The Licensing Committee of the borough yesterday struck off an hour from till the midnight licenses, and cautioned the owners of hotels built of wood that they must build in brick. Many of the hotels in the side streets have only 10 o'clock licenses.