Licensing Matters.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 132, 8 June 1904, Page 3

Licensing Matters.

(Per Press Association.) NELSON, June 6. At the annual meeting of the Licensing Committee to-day applications for renewals were deferred in order that repairs might be affected. Otherwise all licenses were renewed, the police report toeing generally very favourable. The police asked that applicants should be called on to show cause why licenses should be exteitded till eleven o'clock, and urged that they should be limited till ten ; but it was argued that the committee was elected as being favourable to eleven o'clock licenses, and that tha convenience 01 travellers and others rendered it desirable .that the extension should be granted, and this would be done. AUCKLAND, June 7. At the Licensing Committee meeting the chairman announced that, before granting transfers in future he would require evidence that the tranrfwee had his lease on such terms aa would enable him to carry on the license fairly and honestly. /AU applications were granted. DLNEDIX, June 7. The Licensing Committee for Taicti granted all applications save two. In the case of George Mogorian Lea, . of the Stream Hotel, the application was adjourned for three months to enable the property to be sold, as the applicant gave way to teniptatioii. An application for the Coach and Horses Hotel was also adjourned, the building (which was receally destroyed by fire) not being completed. Eleven o'clock licenses were graat* ed in Mosgiel. At the Mount Ida licensing meeting some interest was taken in new ajiplications for licenses in the townships of Munuherikiu, Lauder, and Ophir, about the present terminus of •the Otago Central Kuihvay. In the case of the Ophir Railway Hotel at Manuherikia the polite objected, as the building was not in existence .when the application, was made ; but as no notice of objection had been given the committee (which consisted of Mr Ennis, S.M.. and two merojbers —two others having rendered their seats vacant through non-attend-ance) decided to grant the license, and aa application in respect to the Wharekuri Hotel was withdrawn. After luncheon the committee proceeded to deal with three new applications for licenses at Ophir. After hearing legal argument and an expression by the constable that there was not room for three hotels the chairman said the committee had decided to adopt free trade principles and grant fill three licenses. The applications for licehses for hotels at Huwea Flat, Blackstone Hill, and Ida Valley were withdrawn. The resignations of members gf the Bruce Licensing Committee were forwarded this morning to the Governor. The solicitors acting for the Uruce hot el keepers have filed a notice Jgpf motion in respect to ten hotels in to apply for a writ of mandamus calling up on the Bruce Licenmn K Committee to issue licenses as from July Ist next to the said hotels-

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