LICENSING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue XXIV, 10 June 1902, Page 3

LICENSING.

rai Fun association. Mahtom, June 9. At the anntal meeting of the Licensing Committee on Saturday an application was made for a new licmse at Rongotea. Several petitions, numerously signed, were set aside owing to their not having been lodged in compliance with the Act. The committee was left without a quorum after the lunch adjournment, a member ha vino to leave for his home. The Court adjeurned till Friday. Wellington, Jure 9. J

At the annual meeting of the Wellington Licensing Committee nil «p. plications for renewals and ' rir>fdis were grantrd. The Inspector of Polic reported that a number <f licensed houses in the district were in such a stite from age,-decay, and lack of accommodation that owners should arrange for re-building as early »s possible. He named t«n hotels which are a source of danger fron fire, an 4 doubts if any precautions by way of fite escapee would make them .safe. Dusedin, June 9.

At the annual meeting of the Licensing Bench v-try searching reports were submitted by the police. The chairman (Mr Grah-im, S.M.) said the committee intended to draw attention to any dilapidations, e'c., complained of, and prop sed in all cites where th« trouble wag of sufficient importincn to merely grant a license for three months, which metes tbat unle»s ma'ters are put right by then the license would lapse. Licenses were gran'ed for only three mon'hsto the Aus'rhsi <n, Gridiron, Duke of Eiinburgh, Farmers' Arms, Prince of Wale-', and O'ago Hotels. In most of the c >hps want of proper fire esc»p s was the principal ground of complaint.