Westland Licensing Committee

Hokitika Guardian, 9 June 1921, Page 4

Westland Licensing Committee

WEDNESDAY, JUNE Bth

The annual meeting was held at the Courthouse. Present:—Messrs G. W. Bundle, S.M. (Chairman), F. Kilgour, H. Bignell, F. McGregor, A. Clifton, and C. J. Nightingale.

NEW LICENSES FOR OLD HOUSES. Henry Ellis Nightingale, Dominion Hotel, Hokitika. —Adjourned for improvements. James Avery Dowell, Ivokatahi Hotel. Kokatahi.—Adjourned for improvements.

.lames S. Phillips, Mahinapua Hotel, Mahinapua.—Adjourned for improvements.

Michael Keenan, Royal Mail Hotel, Woodstock. —Adjourned for improvements. Charles Black, City Hotel, Ross.— Adjourned for improvements. James Steel, Otira Gorge Hotel, Otira.—Adjourned for improvements. Fee £lO.

Donald Steel, Commercial Hotel, Kumara.—Adjourned for improvements. Arthur Hill. Midland Railway Hotel, Kokiri.—Adjourned for improvements. William M. Routhnn, Helvetia Hotel, Gc'.dsborough.—Adjourned for improvements. William T. BJaekmun, Caledonian Hotel. Stafford. —Adjourned for improvements. John W. Scanned, Railway Hotel, Kumara Junction. —Adjourned tor improvements. Thomas H. Chinn, Better ’Die Hotel, Wat aroa—Adjourned for improvement*. APPLICATIONS to transfer. William McLean to John W. Scanned, Railway Hotel, Kumara Junction. —Granted. James Rrayshaw to Donald Steel, Commercial Hotel, Kumara.—Granted. Michael Hanrnhnn to William M. Routhnn, Helvetia Hotel, Golds borough.—G ranted. James McAulay to Charles Black, City Hotel, Ross.—Granted. Thomas Foster to Thomas H. Chinn, Better ’Ole Hotel, Wataroa. —Granted. Patrick T. MeConnon to James A. Dowell, ivokatahi Hotel, Ivokatahi.— Granted. Hugh F. Doogan to Thomas J. Furlong, Recreation Hotel, Greymouth. —Granted. APPLICATIONS FOR RENEWALS. John Vine Hall, Occidental Hotel, Hokitika. —Adjourned for improvements. Gerard W. Keller, Keller’s Hotel, Hokitika.—Granted. John J. Mclntosh. Red Lion Hotel, Hokitika.—Adjourned for improvements. Alexander Cowie, Post Office Hotel, Hokitika. —Adjourned for improvements. Joseph L. Fowler, Central Hots 1 , Hokitika.—Adjourned for improvements. David Hunter, Pioneer Hotel, II tika.—Adjourned for improvements. Mary Jane Bergstrom, Marquis otLome Hotel, Hokitika.—Adjourned fo* improvements.

Willitm Hall, Dunedin Hotel, Hoxitika.—Adjourned for improvements. James Johnston, Commercial Hotel, Hokitika.—Adjourned for improvements. Thomas Devaney, Club Hotel, Hokitika. —Adjourned for improvements. William S. Stewart, Masonic Hotel. Hokitika.—Adjourned for improvements. Bridget O’Connor, Southland Hotel, Hokitika. —Adjourned for improvements. Henry Jones, Railway Hotel, Hokitika.—Granted. Ellen Mary Toker, Greyhound Hotel, Arahura.—Adjourned for improvements. Mary G. Marshall, Three Mile Hotel, Three Mile.—Adjourned for improvements. Edward T. Shorriff, Exchange Hotel, Blue Spur.—Adjourned for improvements. Mary Graham, Longford Hotel, Kokatnlii.—Adjourned for improvements. Patrick T. MeConnon, Ivokatahi Hotel, Ivokatahi. —Adjourned. Alnthea Lamaoroft, Commercial Hotel, Rimu. —Adjourned for improvements. Daniel Ryan, All Nations Hotel, Rimu. —Adjourned for improvements. Elizabeth A. Head, Empire Hotel, Kanieri.—Adjourned for improvements. Walter R. Parkinson, Lake Hotel, Kanieri Lake.—Granted. Fee £5. Arthur Robinson, Tramway Hotel, Tnramakau. —Granted. Fee £5. William Wright, Lake fanthe Hotel, Pukekura.—Adjourned for improvements. Thomas Foster, Better ’Ole Hotel, Wataroa. —Name changed to Wataroa Hotel.—Adjourned for improvements. Ernest A. Kirby, Hari Hari Hotel, Hari Hari.—Adjourned for improvements. Frank Hevcldt, Forks Hotel, Okarito. —Adjourned for report. Norman Friend, Royal Hotel, Okarito. —Granted. James W. Graham, Glacier Hotel, Waiho. —Application adjourned for report. Samuel G. Ferguson, Ferguson’s Hotel, Fergusons.—Granted. Fee £7 10s. John McFarlane, Bremond’s Hotel, Kumara. —Adjourned for improvements. James Mclvor, Theatre Royal Hotel, Kumara. —Adjourned for improvements. Edward Mulvihill, Courthouse Hotel, Kumara. —Adjourned for improvements. Peter McDonald, Dundalk Hotel, Kumara.—Adjourned for improvements. Edward Martyn, Empire Hotel, Kumara.—Adjourned for improvements. Michael Murphy, Murphy’s Hotel, Kumara. —Adjourned for improvements. Charlotte Lewis, Pearn’s Hotel, Ku-mara.-—Adjourned for improvements. James Shannon, Globe Hotel, Dillmanstown.—Adjourned for improvements. Samuel J. Rowe, Junction Hotel, Dillmanstown— Granted. Martha Foley, Westbrook Hotel.— Adjourned for improvements. William Morgan, Mitchell’s Hotel, Lake Brunner. —Granted. Foe £5. Francis Moore, Clydesdale Hotel, Ross.—Adjourned for improvements. Henry MeMullan, Empire Hotel, Ross —Adjourned for improvements. Bridget Roberts, Commercial Hotel, ) R. oss ._Adjourned for improvements. ) Patrick M- Fitzgerald, Suburban Ho-

tel, Greymouth; Deborah J. Rathbon, Imperial Hotel, Greymouth; Robert Russell, Park Hotel, Greymouth ; Gerald Perotti, Commercial Hotel, Greymouth ; George E. Simeon, Club Hotel, Greymouth; O’Brien, Caledonian Hotel. Greymouth ; Alary A. Thornton, Post Office Hotel, Greymouth ; James D. Winghain, Albion Hotel, Greymouth; Annie Mclntyre, Duke of Edinborough Hotel, Greymouth ; Patrick McCormick, Golden Eagle Hotel, Greymouth ; Thomas /Milligan, Gilmer Hotel, Greymouth; William McFarlane, Royal Hotel, Greymouth ; Edward Ashton, Railway Hotel, Greymouth; William J. Ives, Central Hotel, Greymouth ; Annie Martin, Brian ; R iru Hotel, Greymouth ; Francis Milne, I Australasian Hotel, Greymouth; Edward M. Quinn, Oriental Hotel, Greymouth ; Joseph Markland, Paroa Hotel, Paroa.—Adjourned to Monday, June l.'ftb, at 2 p.m. Anna Louisa Bernhard, Ngahere Hotel. Ngahere.—Granted. William J. Guthherlet, Railway Hotel, Ngahere.—Adjourned tor improvements.

Julia Mullins, Jvamnka Hotel, Ka maka.—Granted.

Joseph Lloyd, Empire Hotel, Moana. Adjourned for improvements. J,,' n Morresev, C'ashmore Hotel, To Kinga.—Adjourned for improvements. Thomas Leamy, Perry’s Range Hotel, Jackson’s. —Adjourned for improvements.

David A. Jackson, Bush Inn Hotel, Aicken’s. Granted. Fee £5.

Patrick O’Brien, Commercial Hotel, Nelson Creek.— Adjourned for improvements.

Margaret Daniel, Union Hotel, Nelson Creek.—Adjourned for improvements.

William M (■Lean, Railway Hotel, Kumara Junction.—Withdrawn.

WHOLESALE LICENSES

Malcolm IT. Houston, M. Houston and Co’s Store, Hokitika.—Granted. William R. Kettle. Kettle’s Store, G re v moil 11 i .—G ra n ted.

Griffin and Smith, Ltd., Griffin and Smith, Ltd., Greymouth.—Granted. James D. Lynch, Mark Snrot’s Store, Greymouth.—Granted. George A. Perry, Perry’s Store, Hoki-tika.-—Granted. Margaret McDonnell, McDonnell’s Store, Greymouth.—Granted. NEW ZEALAND WINE LICENSE. William Charles Braddon, Sewell Street, Hokitika.—Granted. It will he observed that almost in every instance the applications have been adjourned until the next quarterly meeting in order to give the licensees an opportunity to fulfil the requisitions from the Board of Health requirements as to sanitary conditions of the premises and yards. In many instances their requirements are very drastic and unnecessary, especially with reference to the West Coast hotels.

In many instances to police reports were not so exacting, bill coupled in many cases with the Board ot Health requirements it made a fairly formidable list.

The Board of Health’s request that a hot and cold water system he installed in every hotel was considerably modified by the Committee, who insisted that plenty of clean cold water be employed in the bars for rinsing and washing purposes, the water to be changed frequently, but where a hot water service is desirable, it being a recommendation for the licensee for bathing purposes, not necessarily for bar purposes. The request from the police that the two fire escapes from the Princess Theatre which drop into the Red Lion hotel yard and into the Post Office hotel yard, he removed, was not entertained bv the Committee.

In all cases of adjournment for improvements the Magistrate intimated that in all cases the requisitions of the Board of Health must be strictly complied with, before the next quarterly meeting.

The Board of Health and police reports in connection with three hotels in Hokitika, were of such a drastic nature that the Committee adjourned for an hour to personally inspect the buildings, and after discussion the granting of the licenses was adjourned for three months to give time for the necessary repairs to be effected in each case. All tho Greymouth borough licenses were adjourned until Monday, June • 13th, at 2 p.m., at Greymouth, to thrash out the vexed question of the hot and cold water system throughout the Greymouth hotels. Tho Committee intimated that all front doors of hotels he kept open up to ten o’clock of tin evening, for the convenience of the public, hut that all bars bo securely closed.

It is the duty of licensees where an application for a license has been adjourned to pay up monthly in advance a proportionate part of the license fee, to the Treasurer of the local authority entitled to the fee, until such time as the application is granted. Tho meeting finished at 6.45 o’clock last night, getting through a vast amount of work, many of the reports being of great length. The Committee meet at Greymouth next Monday, June 13th, at 2 p.m.