LICENSING COMMITTEE.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 8, Issue 480, 10 June 1919, Page 2

LICENSING COMMITTEE.

Annual Meeting. The annual meeting of the Franklin Licensing Committee took place in the Courthouse, Pukekohe, when Mr F. K. Hunt, S.M., chairman, presided. Others present were Messrs Cecil Roadley, W. Claud Motion, C. K. Lawrie and J, D. Chalmers. RENEWALS GRANTED. Renewals of Publicans' Licenses were granted as follows, good reports in each case coming from the police ; •John R. Fraser, Globle Hotel, Papakura ; Joseph Ryan, Papakura Hotel, Papakura; Charles Clarke, Pukekohe Hotel, Pukekohe ; T. B. Bayley, Patumahoe Hotel, Patumahoe ; T. £. Smith, Miranda Hotel, Miranda; E. J. Morrison, Kentish Hotel, Waiuku. THE DRURY HOTEL. An application for a renewal of a Publican's License was received from Mr W. C. Waugh, of the Railway Hotel, DruTy. Sergeant Cowan said he had inspected the building and bad found everything satisfactory, excepting that the bath-room badly needed attention. The bath therein required enamelling. He also advocated that a hot water service be installed.

Mr Mahoney, who appeared for applicant, said the bath had been re-enamelled. With regard to the water service, both hot and cold, he stated that at Drury there was no public water supply. There was a well at the hotel, but it did not have a windmill, the only means of getting water was by means of a force pump. The hotel relied on water from the roof for domestic purposes. To instal a hot water service would mean doubling the present water capacity, and he was afraid this could not be done without tremendous cost.

" You must remember, Mr Mahony, that we are in the 19th Century," said Mr Hunt. Mr Mahoney : Yes, Your Worship, the 19th'Century is a peculiar one.

Continuing, Mr Mahoney said the owners would arrange to instal hot water in the bar for washing the glasses. He estimated the expense to instal the hot water at between £2OO and £250 and on top of this the owners had to face the question of the approaching referendum without compensation. In face of this, and no one knew what the result would be, he applied to have the matter of the installation of a hot water service postponed for six months or until after the referendum had been taken.

The Committee agreed to this, but stipulated that if prohibition is not carried the work is to be undertaken immediately after the referendum.