LICENSING COMMITTEE

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 294, 8 June 1912, Page 2

LICENSING COMMITTEE

SITTING AT NEW PLYMOUTH. The annual meeting of the Taranaki Licensing Committee was held at New Plymouth it noon yesterday. Mr. A, Crooke, S.M., presided, and other members present were:—Messrs. H. Okey, Walter Ambury, W. L. Newland, and i). H. McDonald. Transfers were granted as follows: Terminus Hotel, R. H. Campbell (Mr. Grey) to Florence M. Paulsen (Mr. Grey); Inglewood Hotel, Martin Bergin (Mr. A. Paterson) to Andrew Laing. Renewals were granted to Rebecca Tabor, White Hart Hotel (Mr. Weston); . Andrew Laing, Inglewood Hotel (Mr. A. H. Johnstone); Florence May Paulsen, Terminus Hotel (Mr. Grey); William John Williams, Grosvenor Hotel (Mr. Grey); Stanislaus John Whiteford, Breakwater Hotel (Mr. Weston); John McKean, Criterion Hotel (Mr. Weston); James Tuthill, Taranaki Hotel (Mr. Quilliam); Edwin Whittle, Red House Hotel (Mr. Quilliam); Bridget O'Neill, Railway Hotel, Inglewood, (Mr. A. H. Johnstone); Walter Little, Imperial Hotel (Mr. A. H. Johnstone). Wholesale licenses were issued to the following:—Hawltins and Smith, Brougham street; L. D. Nathan.and Co., Ltd., Courtney street; and Goldwater Bros., Carrie street, and a packet license was granted to the Northern Steamship Co. for the s.s. Rarawa. The fee for conditional licenses was fixed at £ ] per diem. A renewal of an accommodation license was granted to James Rothery, of the Oakura Hotel, Mr. Grey undertaking, on behalf of the licensee, that the committee's requirements would be carried out, that a new verandah would be built, and a fire escape ladder kept under it for use. A similar renewal was granted to the Okato Hotel, Bertram and Booker | licensees. ' A suggestion was made by the police that the second escape ladder of the Criterion Hotel should be made more sloping, so that it would be more (Vmvenient for females to descend in case of fire in the top rooms. Mr. C. H. Weston, on behalf of the licensee, gave an undertaking that this would be done if the committee, after viewing the ladders, considered it necessary. He had not gone into tlie matter, as the police had not insisted that this should be done. The license was granted. The police also recommended that another bath-Toom should be added to the Inglewood Hotel. On behalf of the licensee Mr. Patterson promised that the matter would bo attended to before • the next quarterly meeting of the committee, and the license was accordingly granted. n J 1