LICENSING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 162, 30 June 1908, Page 2

LICENSING.

By Telegraph.— I'ress Assoei^n. At n Hokiti kn, Last t'ht. w < i meeting i the lestland Licensing Comnifttccto-day, an application for a new bote called ie Dominion," which, accordii] to applicant s counsel, was up-toMe in every respect, and which had .ben adjourned from the annual moing for the presence of an absent mo'ier, and on which occasion (he Magistite refused to abjudicate, owing to C|tnin allegations appearing in the I'al - newspapers Charging him with bps an interested party in the applijtion, was granted on the casting vote! the Magistrate. In delivering ju/ment, the Magistrate reviewed the jsition at length, and inter alia, stateithat having traced the source of the allegations against him, he could aff<d to ignore them, record now his vie, and thus give oftcct to the wishes < a large majority of electors who al/nst local option poll voted for tile Jntimiance of the existing number of (censes. The granting of the npplicaih means that Hokitika, with a populjion of 2240, now has 18 licensed liojes. Probably some of the objectors wj apply to the Supreme Court for a wv eertioraris to quash the decision of th<Liccnsing Committee. !