The Awahuri Hotel.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 10, 10 December 1884, Page 2

The Awahuri Hotel.

\.f ,-.... — ■■ ■. ♦ i- -• ■:•..; „;. , . (Mar.ton Paper.) ; }■ ■ :,, We can easily nnder^tand. that the ■people of Awahiiri wontd not like; to see the license taken away, for they, deem the hotel . a necessity, ■■ if j only jas arf house. This much was ''admitted -. by Mr Bennett, one of the strongest witnesses for the police. We heartily coincide m this view of th^e casebut.we hold that the SQp,ney Mr, Samuels takes his departure for Wellington the better U Vill be for himself, and, what is far more important^ for the Awahuri district* The decision arrived at by the committee seems paradoxical. ' They held that all. the charges made hy the police had been sustain^ a,n,d they paid a high compJimantty .Constable GiMeaSije fox. \he $eal .anfl • intelligence he had isplayed. They saddled; the licensee " with all the costs, amounting to seven, pounds ten shillings, an d yet they did not withdraw the lioen.ce, We cordial ly end.pwe the eulogium passed on Constable Gilleapie, and we trust that his praiseworthy conduct will be rewarded by his superior officers, but we oannot discern, the loglo of the oommittee's judgement. The charges made against the licensee were of a very grave character, the committee held that they had been proved,, and the natural aequenoe would have been either that they should have withdrawn the lioence.Qr else exacted a pledge from Mr. Samuel.sthatit; would be transferred at the earliest possible opportunity. The latter course' would have been the better, for it is beyond doubt that an accommodation house is needed at Awahuri, and it would not pay to keep one there unless the saje of liquor were allowed . •'.....