ALFREDTON LICENSING BENCH.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3358, 10 July 1890, Page 2

ALFREDTON LICENSING BENCH.

■The adjourned meeting of the above was bold on Tuesday, to consider the • application of E.Ellison for a license for premises in course of erection. • •Mr Tosswfll appeared for the appli* ■; cant, and Beard opposed, • v-f- ---! Mr Tosswill applied for a farther. adjournment of one month, on the ground that the weather being so bad the builders were unable to work, The Chairman: Yoa.toldua at lust meeting J that yon would have- the*! building completed by to day. . . Mr Beard: I understand that the timber for the building has been' supplied by members of the Committee' ; if that is so Iwonld suggest that'"j: they retire from the Bench. '" Mr Beard here dxplained thatsuch ; were not qualified to sit on the Benob, and quoted sub-seotion : 11 of the Licensing Aot. He merely"mentioned the Act to caution the Bench that he would have to take steps, in the event, of a lioense being granted, to have it ' Bet aside in another court. Again,' the member sitting would place himself in a different position; and would : be liable to a fine of. £SO. It was absolutely impossible for the Benob to grant an adjournment as his friend applied for. The protest was that the building was not finished atifl'furnished on aocount of the wet weather. ; ,

'/Mr Tosswill: I will admit that the timber merchants sitting on the. touch are disqualified. : My client has' l spent on tbis property £250. .Most ipf the doors and window's are on the ; ground, and the furniture ,wUI beup ■. to-day. That being so, it is a fait and reasonable application. Wy olient' is quite willing to pay the cost ot adjournment for fourteen!days.' The building will. be.completed at, ' ''" '." '" ". - : '

,;; ifter argument, the Benoh granted an adjournment for one month, tho ■'applibaijt'to pay mis}M Us; ■- The .Chairman, in granting the •ljownnienttßW thatno pj^

T would bo given tbat a lioenso would bo granted oven if the building was finished, but he should atato that if at Hie next meetfagHlie building was not complotely finished, including the foncoa'round :the propeity, i|a would, pledge'Lis word that no ■loJtber adjournment or licenso would be granted under any circumstances.-