A PUBLIC HOUSE TRUST COMPANY

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 118, 22 October 1901, Page 3

A PUBLIC HOUSE TRUST COMPANY

TheSusßPX Public House Trost Company, which is etill an inohoate body, baa taken, eaye the Weetmioitcr Gazette a strikingly new departure. We understand th*t Lord Grey's Central PublicHouse Trust Association next year will issue a oirculer to every licensing body in the United Kingdom suggesting that no new licenses should be issued to any individual or company for the sake of private profit when there i« instead a body of public-spirited citizens in the locality ready to take over any new lioense whieh the magistrates may think necessary, and to work it foe the public advantage of the district oonoerned. This was the plan carefully thought out at headquarters. But the Ceutral Association is unable to control the various county companies. The Sussex Company has taken action on its own account. It appeared by counsel at the Eas l bourne Sessions, where no fewer than three applications were made by brewer) and others for a new licence within that Borough. Pointing out that the grant of a new license would be tantamount to a gift of so many thousand p mnda to the fortunate recipient, counsel asked the Bench if it was really thought that a new licence was required, to stay their hanri until next ye<*r, and then to hand over the licence experimentally to the new Sus3»-x Trust Company, which will by that time be in working order. Counsel for the individual applicant asked th«i magistrates not to act upon the invitation of a body which was still "in the air," but to make the suggested gift to his real flesh-andblood applicant. The Bench, however, oveiruled the objection, dismissed the application, and next year we shall see what is the result of the Trust Company's application.