LICENSING MEETINGS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1051, 9 June 1882, Page 3

LICENSING MEETINGS.

Dunstan District. Messrs. A. A. Oliver, Chairman; Faobe, Welsford, and McGinnis. The C ork read minutes of previous meeting.

A. Cameron, Batchers’ Gully Hotel, Alexandra and Texiot road, applied for an accommodation license. Mr. Wilson, in support of the application said that due notice in the matter of advertising in the Dunedin Daily Times, etc., had been given, and that the application was in every respect regular. The chairman asked how it was not inserted in the local paper. Mr Wilson entered into a long explanation on the views “xpressed by the various legal authorities as to the real necessity of advertising, and also as to the action taken, and as the Act laid it down that the advertisement had to appear on three consecutive days and as the local paper only appeared weekly the course he had pursued was. in his opinion, the only legal one. Mr. Wilson then drew attention to the 115 th section of the Act, which provides that all applicants for licenses shall state the name of owner or mortgagee. He said as the information in this respect if given was not for the general benefit, he had omitted it from the app l icatio"s. But as the information had to be endorsed on the licenses, he would ask whether he should give that information privately to the Committee cristate it in the open Court. The Committee thought that if the information was given privately it would suffice. Mr Fache thought that if Mr Wilson had not carried out the Act in its entirety in this particular, the applications were not in proper form. He thought fheapplicationsshouldhave been advertised in the local papers where they would have been seen by the majority of those interested, instead of in a Dunedin paper that was only seen by about one in every hundred. Mr Wilson thought it scarcely right for the question to he raised by one interested. Mr Fache said that the question of his being on the Committee was not under consideration. Here the matter rested. Appica'iou granted. Fee, £lO. John Stewart Dickie, Port Phillip Hotel, Clyde ; day and night licenses. Granted. James Parks, Hartley Arras Hotel, Clyde; day and night licenses. Granted,

James Holt, Vincent County Hotel, Clyde ; day and night licences. Granted. Emma, George, Dunstan Hotel, Clyde, day and night licenses. Granted. James Oliver, Spear Grass Flat Hotel, Bald Hill Flat ; day license. Granted.

John Ttymell Kemp, Cape Broom Hotel BaW Hill Flat ; day license. Granted. Alfred Moore, Junction Hotel, Clyde ; day and night licenses. Granted. John Hayward, Chatto Creek; accomodation license. Granted on payment of £5 fee, with condition that the applicant use all reasonable; endeavours in case of flood to keep the ford?open?for;traffic. Benjamin Naylor, Clyde, wholesale license. Granted. Manuhehlkta District.

The Licensing Meeting for this district was held in the Court House Ophir, on the Bth inst.

The whole of the applications for hotel Reuses were granted. An accommodation license was granted to Thomas Wilson, Ida Valley; fee £3. A bottle license was granted to Mr J. Pitches, Ophir. .