LICENSING COMMITTEES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 152, 1 July 1903, Page 2

LICENSING COMMITTEES.

FEB PRBW ASSOCIATION. •Wkllivgton, Jana 30. The City Licensing Ojoimifctea met to-day to cou&idtr the adjiurced spplications for license? for t'ae Cecil, Kmpire, and Oriental hotels, to which "Dives" are attichei. Tbe Committee decided to further adjourn the applications for three months, be ng of opinion thu " Dives" wtrj au evasion of I he law. Csunsel for applicants contended tint the Committee had no power to at'ach bar clo.-ing conditions to a license, and pointed om that in law there was na such thing aa an evasion of an act, as all old legal rules on this sut j ct had gone, and tha Courts interpreted a Statute by its language. A thing was either right or wrong, The l:ceuse of the Panama Hotel waß renewed. " ' Dunedin, June 30. At the adjourned meeting of the Waikouaiti Licensing Committee today, redaction having been curried, it was resolved to refuse licenFea to the Pdlmerston and Empire Hottls in Polmerston, and the Clyde Hotel in . Hampden, the lat'er having bad the', license endorsed since last meetiog.l, This makes four hotels closed, being ( tle number permitted by law. ThOj - leductd hotels in the City and Caver- li sham will be closed to-mt rrow, and 10 ] o'clock closing will come into operation.' ( | The whole of the hotela in the i Caalmers electorate, which inclu Its the!, [North-east Ya'ley, will closa their bars 1 , to-morov, | In the Biuce district it is understood , the bars wi 1 be kept opje, bu'. only j n m-slcoholic drinks sold until the , Appeal Couat gives iti d. onion, i (