LICENSING MEETINGS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2312, 4 June 1886, Page 2

LICENSING MEETINGS.

~.. DISTRICT. The annual mefeting] of the above ComhMdjin the old Courtroom y.ms&li.\!.&sh&M.mn Everett (CliMrinan);VD'ollkiifl, Gundersen, and Lang. ■'""'". l,il '-" . An application, from Alexander Dick for a license foVftlhouse to be known as ! the! Railway ]B<o\,el v afj [Mauriceville, was read, and petitions' for' and against the issuing of the license were considered. The Inspector's roport stated that the Local Option vote,™ against the grants ing of new licenses; ; aiicrhe opposed the application on the grounds that the The license the o^.a^pljc!)nt.. The Inspector s report .being favorable to the Mulgravo Hotel} ! W<j renewal of the license was granted to Mr E. H. Elliotto. - f .Sundry accounts wore fasaed for payfo'entfj4tj ad ourijed. raaniMfe.s)«diflY^i | t)je ; ni'e'Btin'gj of jl|s' 'Commit•application for two in the* fibMuMi, the petition ■hmbw Temperance party ,re the f 4h r olrSi6i3ro(;pfiva.t(J,'l)aw i raifijjbgpresented. The public conieque ltly attended in force, taxing the room to/ritSviutraoat limits." - .i\()» ;'.After the/confirmation of the minutes .th§.lnspectyrfti^epofit?,poi-oWdf ;f :: Thteityoycifley/ jhotols were first dealt with in the ref oft, wllfiH'pka \u (Battering furnishiyg .and, , "bUt , ' % pbiecV 'M'[<tOi,'M difsensqj -bei ig j gr'aiiled ''on" .thy.'gtadridsvtiwPhey wt re not reaped •iriJthejliatvictpifflElfo rep)rt-b^tho -four •esißting licensed bousei wali'W'ttiey iwerepwellconducted, and no objections Jft'ere'j&gaitißt them. , I JpeHm r c&;ptotyljpisgeiited not to grant licenses for private k* Me hotels., and to abolish thMxisting otfw. Ho Bi)d

the petition was ut genuine on'uj and was riot bearing on any particular' hoj,el. It j was the opinion of the tempiii^jjt'body that private bars : led. to'! drink- '■-] ing, and had an uuduo iufluenc Jin that of ■■. drunkonncsa, more especially among females who would not be Been drinking , >' in a public bar, but wereled* to tho evil by tho existence of the private ones, The , petition bore 140 signatures. .* The application of Henry Phillips for a new license was then Considered. ■ Price siud the police objected to the house on the grbund'that tho four., existing licensed w.orj} auffiqiont for the Borough.- It was iv good House', weir' furnished, and everything in with the Act, the applioank.'bore V JRdid character, and the residents TjijihYimmediate vicinity wore hot opposed to \ the application.—License'granted, m On the application frmn Mr Phillips tho name of the hotel was changed to the fl "Occidental." V W. Kibblewhite applied for a new 1 license, for a'hotol to be : "known as the '1 "Star Hotel." ...■■.. 1 Sergeant Price said the police opposed tlie application on the" grounds that the house hadjbennfor years conducted as a good accommodation house, and as such ! had been well patronised.' There were licensed houses close at hand, aMie was afraid the place would not, be sKtccesitul, so far as comfort was concerned, after being licensed. '.■;' Mr Kibblewhite thought that the fact of his having kept the house .'so well for nine years should be an argument in favor of granting him the license,.; Visitors to his house were constantly uomplaining of, tho want of liquors in the placo, and/fin ... boarders had to go' elsewhere to spend tne ( l", evenings through the same cause, coraW pellinp him to sit up for them to return. The Chairman thought .'the Sergeant's arguments were weak., If:JMr Kibblewhite conducted, his accomodation house well he could conduct an hotel equally well, Mr Hessey spoke in the application which was granted. '', Onthe application for the renewal of the Olubhotellicensefortwobars.Mrßeardsaid that the statements in,the petition about private bars increasing 'drunkenness waß groundless In conrJucting "hotels the moredrinking accomodation there was provided the bettor a place could be managed. The different bars divided the'elements of drinking Some preferred a; public bar, ' while others would rather drink where it i was quiet, this gave the landlord a better i opportunity of conducting his house' well. Those publicans who had ririvate bars i had gone to great expense in-fitting and I furnishing them, and it wjsild be hard i lines not to grant them the after ' they had spent so much i Application granted for one bar only. ' Mrs Wagg, Prince of Walesi Hotel, was >,.. • granted a renewal for one bar only, y * i Mr Thompson. Empire Hotel. and( M. i Toohill, Royal Hotol, were granted™ newak The licenses were in all casts , granted for 11 o'clock. ' Several accounts were passed for pay- ■ ment, and the meeting then adjourned.