HOTEL LICENSE REFUSED.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81854, 29 September 1906, Page 2

HOTEL LICENSE REFUSED.

I'er Press Association. Dunedin, September 28. Hie Waikouaiti Licensing Committee met to-day in compliance with the ouler made by the Supreme Court, to hear and determine the application for a license for the Wainakarua Hotel, previously declined. Major Keddol, S.M., presided. Counsel for the applicant said as it had been found on measurement that the hotel was 12 chains short of being four miles distant from a hotel in Hampden, lie would withdraw tho application for an accommodation liouso and apply for a publican's license. Evidence having been given as to distance and as to the state of repair of the house, the committee retired. The chairman afterwards announced the finding as follows: "That, inasmuch as i- has been proved that the distance between tile two hotels is less than five miles, and that consequently the accommodation license granted in 11)05 t» the Wainakarua Hotel j s in valid, and inasmuch as it lias been proved that the premises are out of repair, the committer decline to grant tlio application." The chairman added that he, disagreed 011 the matter of the place being qui of repair, but perhaps he had a greater knowledge than most of the committee in respect of country hotels. He was in with the committee in regard to the other point.