THE TERMINUS HOTEL.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 June 1920, Page 5

THE TERMINUS HOTEL.

RE-BUI LDffNCu DEMANDED. DECISION OF LICENSING COMMITTEE. At the annual meeting of the Taranaki Licensing Committee renewals of licenses in the case of the Royal Hotel and the Terminus Hotel were deferred, and the meeting was adjourned in order that the members of the committee could visit these hotels and see what improvements and alterations were required. The adjourned meeting was held at the Courthouse yesterday, when there were present: Messrs T. A. B. Bailey, S.M. (chairman), F. P. Corkill, W. Ambury, and R. H. George. In the case of the Royal Hotel a favorable report was received, and the application of the licensee (Mr W. G. Emeny) was granted without imposing any conditions. The report complimented the licensee on the scrupulously clean state of the bar and its environment.

Regarding the Terminus Hotel the report stated that the committee had visited this hotel during the adjournment, and found that a large sum of money had been spent in re-decorating and re-furnishing since the previous annual meeting. The house was now exceedingly comfortable and well-conduct-ed, and its management left little, if anything, to be desired. The fact, however, remained that it was the same old woodten building which had for years past been the subject of discussion, and in respect of which the late committee intimated unanimously in June last year that no further application for a license would be entertained. The present committee recognised what a difficult matter it would be to rebuild now, but were of opinion that the owner should at least have submitted plans for a new house and'asked for an extension of time for re-building. Under the cirdumstances the committee would vote for a renewal of the license for the coming year (M2O-21) on the express condition that plans and specifications for a new house are produced at the September quarterly meeting, and that there be an endorsement to this effect on the new license, or an understanding given by the owner that the license is accepted on this condition.

-Mr. H. B. Billing, who appeared for Mrs. Tabor (the licensee), said that Mrs. Tabor realised that the place would have to be re-built sooner or later. She had instructed her architect to prepare plans twelve montlie ago, but did not go on with them as there seemed a possibility of her lieing.able to sell the hotel. The committee agreed to renew the license subject to the plans being in their hands' before the September meeting, and, on the motion of Mr. Corkill, decided that the opinion expressed by Mr. Poynton, S.M., at the previous annual meeting, to the effect that the houße must be re-built, should be endorsed in the minutes of the meeting.