The Daily News. FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 1901. THE LICENSING QUESTION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 117, 7 June 1901, Page 2

The Daily News. FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 1901. THE LICENSING QUESTION.

If the S.M. do?s hiaduty faiilyand squarely to day he will refuse tLe applications for additional licenses in Nea Fly mouth, The votes of the p.ople of New Plymouth at the hst hcejsing ulectioa weie so distinctly against any increase in the number of hotels that to fores another licensed house upon them would be a distinct vio!a : iou of thsp:ri<. of ihe Act and an outage, upoi Due feelings of the ctmmumty, which would merit tie severe st condemnation. If the expressed will of tha peoplo is illowc-d to be stt aside, in ilia uiaunei suggested by ti-ose inttresfced in this case, a very grave, and we believe unpieiedoiittd, will be perpetrated and »*ieps will have to be taken to mulct: the law so clear that the rights and privileges of the people sbal not iu future ue trampkd on. In reference to the Bell Black license an attempt has be.n made to show that a hare'ship will | be inflicted on the holder if the license if not renewed at Bell Block and he is ! not allowed to get it issued at New I Plymouth. There can be no haidship, i because if the demauds of the L censiug I Commutes have not been complie I J with the punishment, and a just one, is | the forfeiture of the license. Any other course would be to wink at non-compliances and offer a premium to wrong doers. The argument that further hotel accommodation is required is absurd* Toe huccess of the Ooffue Palace, Jubilee Villa, and the several other very excellent hause-, with ail the comfo;ts of first class hotels, prove that another liceu c ed house is not requited for titter the people of New Plymouth or tha travelling public. The responsibility devolving upon the S.M. in the absenca of any cjinmiltee is a very grftvd one, upon which veiy important! istue3 depend.