WAITOA LICENSING COMMITTEE.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 156, 12 June 1886, Page 4

WAITOA LICENSING COMMITTEE.

The annual licensing meeting for the "Waitoa district was held on Monday laat. Present : Messrs Powell (chairman), Turnbull, It. Parr, and Gubbins. Renewals were granted to Robt. S. Brown for the Nottingham Castle Hotel, iforrinpville, and to John Smith for the Ph«nix Hotel, Morrinsrille. Albert GabolinSey was granted a license for the Waihou Hotel, Waitoa. Jklr^E. S. Briiw^jip^lied_foX-p6Haisgion to remove "nis licensed premises to a site near the railway station. Application refused, on tike grounds that the committee had no power to grant a renewal to premises where no bouse existed.

PAEROA LICENSING COMMITTEE. Thb annual meeting of the Ohinemuri Licensing Bench took place in the Public Hall, here, on Saturday evening last. Measr F, Lipsej (chairman), J. W. Shaw, C. F.vMitchell, T. Logan, and J. Barrett, member* of the committee were all prenent, an-i Constable Mitchell ,*performed tli« -inties of clerk to the Bench. After the minutes of the previous quarterly meeting: hud b-^cn ivad and confirmed, Mr C. P. Mitchell moved a resolution of which he ha-J given notice at the lait. meeting to tho effect that tt v tp it w»s desirable to limit the number of licensed hon^es in the totrnsiup of P*eroa. He did not refer to any house in particular, but (hotu?ht i\u committee •hotiM embrace the first favourable opportunity to finy out this v:evr. New Licence — Asher C.\Bsrel3 m«ri«' «p(ilicution for a new license for the Criterion Hotel ; also for an extension of same from 10 to 12 p.m. The iirst Application was granted, but the secon-1 was refused on the ground that there was no public necessity for the extension beyond the usual hour, viz., 10 p.m. George Colebrook made application for & new license for the Wsihi Hotel. This was granted, conditionally that the house be thoroughly renovated before the next quarterly licensing meeting. Remewals. — J. H. Walsh, Owharoa Hotel. Granted. J. M. Coote, Commercial Hotel. Granted. John Nicks, Paeroa Hotel. Granted. M. G. Power, Ail Nations Hotel. Granted. Mra M. H. Mahoney, Belmont, Hotel. Granted. Carroll Nash, Mackaytown Hotel. Granted. Alfred Shepherd, Tramwuy Hotel, Karangahake. Granted. Transfers. — Criterion Hotel from Phillip Bennett to Asher Cassrelis. Granted. Wfcihi Hotel from Arthur Barchall to George Colebrook. Granted. ReraoTal of License. — Mr Lush, acting on behalf of Mr J. H. Walsh, made application for the removal of the license granted to the Owharoa Hotel at Owharoa to a building to be erected , at Karangahake. Plans and specifications of the proposed new building were ' submitted to the inspector and approval of the Bench. A petition signed by some 43 persons residents of Karangahake, protesting againsfc the granting, of permission to remove the license, was i presented to the committee, and Mr A i B. Whitaker appeared to represent the petitioners. Mr Lush quoted from sec- ! tion 97 of the Licensing Act, to show j that the petition was invalid inasmuch af the ages of the persons signing were not atated, and that being the case Mr "Wbitaker bad no locus etandi, and therefore could Uke no part whatever in the proceedings. The Bench upheld Mr Lush's contention, and therefore the petition was thrown out. Messrs Chambers, Gillon, and Browne, three of the petitioners, gave evidence to the effect ♦hat in their opinions there was no necessity for increased hotel accommodation in the Karangahake district. Mr Lush Addressed the Bench at some length in support of Mr Walsh's application, stating that the Yerj fact of Mr Walsh being willing to expend a lar^e sum of

money iv Iho eiecti.cn of a ftood house, wus sufficient to prove tkftt tlieio was room for a aecoud house in tho Karaugahake district. After a considemblo amount of diseussicm, the Bonch adjouruod the application till tho next quarterly luoetiug, so as to gire Mr Walsh time to go with oa the erection of tbe proposed building. This being all the business, the Court then adjourned.