LICENSING COMMITTEES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 129, 2 June 1903, Page 3

LICENSING COMMITTEES.

PKB FBBSB ASSOCIATION. DnsEDiN, June 1. The greatest interest has been taken in the lieetitirg meeting. The Court was crowded shortly before the appointed hour. The elective members tf the committee occupied the b neb, and through Mr Cameron read a prepared statement. From this it appeared that the committee, considering they received a mandate f>om the constituency, invited the co-operation of "the facade" in effecting certain reforms, the curving out of which wou'd be made a condition of granting lic3ns?s. These included the abolition of second bars, providing efficient fire escapes, close attention to sanitary matters, the abolition of birmaids, dispensing wrh Counter lunches, which in future must be restricted to bread and cheese. The committee also drew attention to the relationship between landlord and tenant, and also intimated that some applicants were undesirable, and others failed to reside on the prem'ses, while others followed other employment. The Committee intended to refuse licens°s in all such case*. Mr Carew, P.M., then assumed the Chairmanship, and business began. The following given licenses were «fused:—Laffey's, Otago, Salutation, Thades, Annandale, Pelichet Bay, Waverley, and Mornington Hotels. The Committee decided to close all houses at 10 o'clock.

Later, Seven licenses were granted unionditiocally, thirteen others being granted on conditions as to fire escape ', sanitary ] improvements, etc., the remaining 25 being adjourned for farther considea- \ tion; and from these the additional fix to be closed will be selected. Ail bottle i licenses and all wholesale licenses were granted. , Timabu, June 1. The L'censiDg Committee granted < all licenses. Ihe hour of closing was fixed at 10 o'clock. PiLHKBSTON Nobth, June 1. At the annual meeting of the Licensing Committee to-day, all the licenses, with 11 o'clocktxteDeionc.weregrante'l, excep*. three hotels which were the subjects of a special report by the police ■as to their ansuitability for bus : n«s. AppHcatiocs made on beha'f of the Central and Clarendon Hotels were adjourned for two weeks pending investigation by the Committee as to the accuracy cf the police details. An application in regard t} the Provincial Hotel comes before the Committee this aftersoon. Napibk, June 1. ■ The Licecsing Committee,after hearing evidence as to accommodation piovided at the various hotel?, adjourned until Monday ntx*, when <hey will decide which hotel* are to be closed. Ohristchubch, June 1. Mr H. W. Bishop, S.M., acting as the Kaiapoi Licensing Committee, granted three licenses to day, two at Bangiora and cne at Esiapoi. The Other eigh l . applications for renewals were adjourned for a week. In most of these the premise* were retorted to be unsuitable. Mr fiiehop said be must ooneider the position of all those concerned, as at the next poll no license might be carried, and be could not see bis way to be too exacting in his decision.