OTAKI LICENSING BENCH.

Otaki Mail, Volume 26, 5 September 1919, Page 2

OTAKI LICENSING BENCH.

QT7AETEBLY MEETING-. Tie quarterly meeting of the Otaki Licensing Bench was held at noon today (Friday).' Present: Me«rs .J. Logan Stout, S3L (chairman), W. Tompsitt, H- Free-man, Ben Ling, 3a*. Mc-Leavey. and J. O'Connor. Aa application by Edward Pesrey for a license- for the Telegraph Hotel fOFsiP. wg; gdjowrg** 3rd to allow improvements, a>: previou*ly sugge=:ed, to be carried ' oat. The ■ police report was favourable. The-applieatiiro of J. H. Dadderislge for a license in respect to the Family Hotel ■ o:ik:} was also held over fat a> rsonth to :.:!■..■ ■• rnsprovemenis to foa Mr 31. J.-Jkia::'.* app!:ea.tion {lueTia Hotel,, was granted, improvements being under coarse of eourtrsetion, sad Efeefe to be completed vffitia ' & few. days- A \% j&e \

Health Department was considered by the police to be unnecessary, and the chairman promised to inspect the hotel and ascertain if the suggestion should be adhered to. A license was granted E. H. Beveridge (Post Office Hotel, Foxton), improvements as suggested being nearly completed. The police report on the Family Hotel, Foxton (F. W. Gardes) stated improvements as recommended had not been done, while Mr Gardes said they were under course of construction.— Application deferred for a month. In connoction with this hotel it was stated that the Foxton Borough Council had granted a liconse which the Bench said it had no right to do. Under the circumstances the clerk was instructed by the chairman to write a "stiff" letter to the Council, and point out it had overstepped the mark. The application of Len Freeman | (Whyte's Hotel, Foxton) was adjourned for a month to allow the Bench to ascertain particulars of the contract.

The application of Annie Doogan (Grand, Levin) was granted. . An application for a temporary transfer from Gardes to Curran (Family Hotel, Foxton) was,granted.