ALLEGATIONS AGAINST AN HOTEL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 14 September 1907, Page 2

ALLEGATIONS AGAINST AN HOTEL.

Per Press Association. Christchurch, Last Night. The adjourned hearing of the objections by tha police to the renewal of the license of the Criterion Hr 1 "' held before the Christchurch 1 „ Committee this afternoon. The information was laid under section 76. subsection 3, of the Licensing Act of 1881, as follows :-"It shall be lawful for the licensing committee, at any quarterly licensing meeting, to determine and put an end to any license then current; if it- shall be proved to their satisfaction that the licensed house is conducted in an improper manner, or that the holder of such license is openly and repeatedly intoxicated, or that any conditions upon which the license was granted have not been fulfilled in a satisfactory manner." The alleged misconduct of the house occurred during six or seven months roughly coinciding with the period of the Exhibition The main allegation was that the house had six or seven barmaids who were used to incite people' to drink to excess, and who were "shouted" for by customers and were frequently intoxicated. The customers were pressed to "shout" champagne for the girls, and the girls received men in their bedrooms.- A large quantity of very contradictory evidence was given, and the case adjourned till Wednesday . afternoon next, in order that the licensee, who could not attend through illness, might be, present.