EGMONT LICENSING COMMITTEE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81899, 8 December 1906, Page 2

EGMONT LICENSING COMMITTEE.

The hgmont Licensing Committee met on Friday at Waitara. Present: iMessrs T. Hutchison, S.M. (chairman), :U. H. Pigott, G. Stubbs, G. 11. HcDonald, C. If. Stott, and A. M, Thompson. The police report for the quarter on the hotels in the district •; abift Tt»- *. ld\ouronly application was for a permanent transfer of the license of he )Vaitui4 Hold from H. Dooley to UiJliiim Young. The report of Constable Price was that he had only one complaint to make, and that concerned the annoyance caused by natives congregating I'out the bar. As the new licensee was not an experienced hotelkceuer f :r I"! Bundl pro-' ha I J alter tlie state of affairs, the magistrate said the natives had right as Europeans to congregate in the bar.

Ahuri Co T tilb ! 1 ;' 'l ucsti o"e<l, said that b■•i, ■> •' g " L " tvvo 01 ' t] >™ uiiis ill Mac lather rowdy. i "liigistinti; said it was not to.penalise a licensee because the na . I ned'to"! " Thc coll^Wc • itimd to be so.mcwhat anxious iust now bee ausethere were S0 m,^ OVH - f 0W1 ? dllrin S thu sitti W of the Aative Land Court. 10(1'of th' gi v m f -° mul fI ' OJU 100 ot the .Native Land Court Act, "Inch pve power to the judge of the , °i' ll cr Unit an hotel may be <-• osei to any native if he is of opinion that the supply of drink is interfering with the business of the Court Constable Price said he would recommend the issue of the certificate ot htness, and this was issued according.

Ihe application lor a renewal was granted.

'J lie Health .Department wrote rei)Uesting that the eominittee should consider the matter of having the inspection of hotels made bj- ollicers of the Department, and reporting to the committee on each hotel as to its sanitary condition. .Similar inspections had recently been made for the Masterton and Marlborough committees, and the reports furnished were highly appreciated as having been of great service to them ill arriving at their decision. As evidenced by tlie inspections, the lesult of the present system was that the 1|1!|»1 impoitaiit military defects wen.' overlooked. It could liot be expected that police ollicers should possess the technical knowledge, rajuired of the JJcpurtmeni/s ollicers. The committee decided to avail themselves of the services of the inspectors accordingly, Plans ot the proposed new Bridge Hotel at WaiUra, tlie building to contain seventeen bedrooms, were approved. Ample lire escape* were shown on the plan. I