Licensing Committee.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume XLV, Issue XLV, 8 June 1917, Page 1

Licensing Committee.

At the annual meeting on Taesday, the Bench consisted of Messrs Craig (chosen chairman in the absence of the Magistrate), Inder, Mitchell and M'Knight. The following applications were granted, and as there were no objections by th« police the business was quickly dispssad of. Most of the applicants were represented by Mr Frasar, who was the only solicitor present. The police were represented by Sergts. Kidd (Lawrence) and M'Glone (Clyde*, and Constables Lemm and Bandy. Transfe's. . Isabella Dagg to John Henry Treacy, Patearoa Hotel, Patearoa; Samuel Fryar to Arthur Clemant l3lip, StrathTaieri Hotel, Middlemarcb. Accommodation. John Henry Treacy, Pateafoa Hotel, Patearoa; Thos. Meadows. Newtown, Matakanui; Elizabeth Lynch, Otage Ceniral, Hyde; Alexander Matthew Jordan, Waipiata, Waipiata; Jessie Cattanach, Styx, Paerau; Benjami® Monk, Pass Hotel, Kyeburn Diggings; Mary Elspeth White, Grown, Wedderburn; Pat. Lynch, Railway, Otureha*; James Rutherford, Welsh Harp, Cfciabrians; Robert Mee, White Horse, Becks; E. Reilly, Ida Valley, Poolburn; Wm. John O'Connor, Moa Creek, S£e» Creek ;.~John Ryan; Railway, Lauder; George M'Gillivray Ross, Cbatt* Creek, Chatto Creek; James Galnia, Shingle Cr«ek, Shingle Creek: Isabella Stuart, Island Block, Horse Shoe Bend; Wm. F. Dundass, Railway, Ida Valley; James Borthwick, Lee Stream, Lee Stream: Neil Joseph M'Donaldjj Clark's Junction, Clark's Junction; Joseph M'Devitt, Vulcan, St. Bathans. Publican's Licenses. Sloper, Goldfields, Roxburgh; William Milrie, Terminus, Outrero; James Dunsmuir, BlacKs, Opbir; Arthur Clement Islip, Strath-Taieri, Middlemarch; Samuel McFerran, Royal, Naseby; Alexander Brown, Ancient Briton, Naseby; Edward Sch.erp, Victoria, Naseby; John Wallace, Criterion, Alexandra; Roberl James M'Clintock, Bendigo, Alexandra; Tasman Arthur Gibbons, Caledonian, Alexandra; Mary Sullivan, Grand, Roxburgh; John M'Dowall, Albion, Roxburgh; William Thomas Tansey, Commercial, Roxburgh; Samuel Alexander Lyttle, Outram, Outram; John Fennessy, Welcome Inn, Naseby; Herbert ChHS. Mountney, Ranfurly, Ranfurly; Joseph M'Devitt, Vulcan, St. Bathans; James Anderson, Commercial, Omakau; Henry Drake, Jockey Club, Omakau; William Chas. Pitches, Shamrock, Opbir; Jame« Riordan, Moa Flat, Ettrick; Aral® Young, Bridge, Beaumont; John Jamee Sheehy, Miller's Flat, Rae's Junction; Donald M'Millan, Rae's Junction, Rae's Junction; Edward Pearson, Bridge, Beaumont; Samuel Dunn,

Railway, Heriot; James Muir, Railway, Middlemarch; Wra. Edwin Griffin, United Kingdom, Macraes; Tfaos. Sca> - ey, Stanley's Macraes. In the case of the Albion Hotel, Roxburgh, and the Moa Flat Hotel the police report stated that the buildings were old, and the licensees undertook to re-erect them when things resumed their normal condition. The proprietor of the Otago Central Hotel (Hyde) applied (through Mr Fraser) for a reduction of the fee, but the Bench intimated that they had decided to allow no reductions; all fees would be the same as last yeßr. Conditional license fees would also b« charged as last year.