NEW HOTEL LICENSE.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3526, 13 July 1920, Page 3

NEW HOTEL LICENSE.

uh .tt.ElFUEsftEi‘.r .\’l‘ ’l'.\tTßAi\'GA. _ ' TO M.\.'t‘.\l\l..\’.l‘A J-2013512. '.i‘.u;n.-\N‘GA, July 10. After '2l len.g;tt~._\,' hearing‘ the Tam‘. angn. Licensing Comniittee at 1030 last: night refiised the application of Mr i\tont.S£olll£°l‘.V for an acconnnorlm tion license at Matnmatn. The case created considerable interest owing to the method adopted to secure :-1 transfer of a. license over a greater distance than one mile, nninely, from Maketu, in the .Buy of Plenty to .\«lattamam_ M ‘the annual. ineeting of the cominittce ;on June 10 an application was 111i'l(l{-\ ‘and granted for renewal of the Map. etu license. At the sriine meeting application was made for :1. license at Mataniata, but, there being then no license vacant. applicant sought and secured an zldjoul'mnent: of t},;3 appyt. cation for one month. In the meantime. by noil—pa.\‘nlent of’ the fee, the‘ Maketu license was allowed to lapse. so that when the Matnmata. applioa~ _l‘ioll 0211119 })Pi’C‘t'e the r"(imlll]it't'_(»(.j- on Tllursda_v last: there was then :1 license available. The chairman of the connnitteo (Mr Kenrick, S_iVl.), in aiinounciiig the decision of a. majority of the committee. said the application would be refused on the grounds that the 3«" thouglit there was already sufficient acconiniedation in Matamatn, and that there was no necessity for :1 license. Each party was ordered to pay «its own ‘costs. it was stated in evidence that since. _2 the application was first made :1 'hni'* ing had been erected at I\latanlatal at a cost of about four thon:~:and pounds. This being inside the bi.“ urea and not in brick. has now. under ngi-eeliient with the Mataniata Town Board, to be moved outside the bi-icl»: area. : [ - -H i