Licensing Appeals.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 114, 18 May 1904, Page 3

Licensing Appeals.

THE PRIVY COUNCIL'S DECISIONS, A PROTEST FROM DUNEDIN CHURCH COUNCIL. (Per Press Association.) DUNEDIN, May 16. At a meeting of the Council of the Churches, the following motion was passed with reference to the decision of the Privy Coun:il :—" This council desires to express its sincere sympathy with the residents of Newtown and Bruco in view of the necessary results of the decision of tho Privy Council in reversing tho judgment of the Full Court of the colony and issuing a mandamus to compel the granting of licenses in Newtown, and expresses indignation that threefifths of the vote of the electors in these districts should have been nullified through petty trivialtics ; and calls upon Parliament to pass during its next session such legislation as shall render such occurrences impossible in the future." The Council engaged in prayer for half an hour on the question. Tho application lor a vnjandamus in the case of liruce was deferred, pending a decision in the Newtown case, and will be renewed if necessary. It is not known if the committee is likely to meet before the annual meeting. I'ees paid by licensees last year are still retained and fees have been paid and applications lodged for this annual meeting. THE BRUCE CASES. WELLINGTON, May 17. In connection with the Bruce licensing cases which were held over pending the Privy Council's decision in the Newtown cases, Mr Adams (counsel for the Bruce Committee) and Miss Benjamin (solicitor representing the hotelkeepcrs) had a conference, when it was agreed to urge Mr Cruickshanks, S.M. for the Bruce district and the Bruce Committee to sit as soon as possible to hear applications for lienses which were lodged in June last. Mr Adams has undertaken to expediate matters as far as possible. MR T. E. TAYLOR'S VIEWS. A POSSIBLE " PROHIBITION " HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. CHRISTCHURCH, May 17. Mr T. E. Taylor states that the Sewtown decision has aroused the I'rohißition party throughout the colony. Every constituency will be contested by it at the next election, and no stone will be left unturned to secure victories from end to end of the colony. He states that the result may lie the election of a prohibition House of Uepresentatives. Major Brimtnel, who was in charge of the Salvation Army in Christchurch some years ago. was written to to-day asking him to come to New Zealand and contest one of the seats here. LICENSING COMMITTEE MEETING. AN APOLOGETIC BODY. WELLINGTON, May 17. A special meeting ol the Newtown Licensing Committee was held this afternoon to deal with applications for licenses for the. fivo hotels in the electorate. The chairman announced that the committee recognised that they had been wrong in law, and were not at present prepared to offer any objection to a renewal of the licenses. A statement was then read on behalf of the committee that ilie licenses had been refused by the committee, not as prohibitionists, but. because according to their interpretation of the act they considered they had no jurisdiction. In this view they had been supported by many lawyers of great experience. They were now prepared to accept the new position with a good grace. The committee then granted renewals of licenses, until the. annual meeting on June 4th, to the licensees of the Park, (Irosvenor, !'Mlbirnie, and Island Bay Hotels. Two applications were received for a license for the Newtown Motel, one from a former licensee!, who.sd lciftse had been terminated sinco the hotel was closed, and one from the new tenant. These applications were adjourned until Monday. The committee came to the conclusion that it would not be fair to the licensees to mulct them in the whole of 'the license duty for the present year. One-third of tho fee, they thought, would be sufficient.

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