LICENSING COURT.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5287, 6 March 1878, Page 2

LICENSING COURT.

Friday, March 5. (Before Mr. Crawford (chairman), and Messrs. Kebbell and Moore, commissioners.) A NEW HOTEL. Mr. Walter Bishop applied for a license for a hotel in Guba-street, to be known as Duffs Hotel. He deposed, in cross-examination by Mr. Ollivier, who appeared to object to the, license, that the house was roomy and in every-, way suitable for the accommodation of boarders, &c., there being also: everything provided which they required for the purposes of.au hotel . , , George Bowden, who stated he’ had been employed to get signatures towards the petition in favor of the granting of the license, was next examined. He deposed that about 450 householders in all had signed the petition, and he had met; with no • real opposition. (Witness, on being shown a counter petition, stated that similar signatures appeared upon both, their number being, as it were, either 19 or 20.) : After some observations the Chairman of the Bench remarked that, in the re-consideration of applications, the requirements of the city should be considered, and when that was done, it i was; found that there, was insufficient hotel accommodation for travellers and visitors, although perhaps plenty: for bar-frequenters and: others of that ilk. Mr. Crawford obi served that i- appeared to him a duty to endeavor to increase as far as possible, the, hotel accommodation of the city, whilst decreasing the number of drinking shops.- That was their intention, and as far as he was concerned he was determine 1 that such a principle should be carried out. The decision of the Bench, therefore, was that the license would ultimately be granted on all the requisite accommodation being provided. TBS PRINCESS THEATRE HOTEL. Mr. J. F. Margetts applied for a license for the PrinoesiTTheatre Hotel Mr. Allan appeared to support the. application, and Mr. Ollivier appeared bn the other side. Mr. Margetts gave evidence as to the accommodation afforded by the hotel, and stated that it possessed eleven bedrooms and one sitting-room on , the upper storey, together with other rooms on the ground floor. Mr; Montague L. Bro wne, agen': for the Soldene Opera Troupe;' likewise testified to the fact of the house possessing every accommodation. . Messrs. Edward Hunter, Overton, and N. J. Isaacs gave similar evidence, after which , Mr. Ollivier addressed the Court in opposition to the granting of the license, and called the Yen. Archdeacon Stock and the Rev. Mr. Paterson to give evidence as to the necessity for the granting of the license, the r evidence going to show that the bouse was not required. Inspector Atcheson objected to the license being granted, as not required in the neighborhood.—Thb Bench granted the application.' TRANSFERS. The transferor the license of the Melbourne Hotel from Mr. C. J. Hughes to Mr. Mclntosh was granted.—The transfer from Mr.' Fenton to Mr. Mountain, for the New Zealander Hotel, was likewise granted; as also the trUlster of the license tor the Bank Hotel from Mr. Mclntosh to Mr., Bradford. ■■ ,;y An application by Mr. Charles Moody for.a license for the Tramway Hotel, Adelaide-road, was postponed for a week, so as to enable the applicant to complete • various improvements required, and which were now pending.