LICENSING EXPENSES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5210, 18 December 1895, Page 3

LICENSING EXPENSES.

THE BOROUGH COUNCIL NOT SATISFIED.

At last night's meeting of the Masterlon Borougb Council, the following correspondence was received in reply to a letter from t-ho Town Clerk: To tho Town Clerk, Masterton, 4th Dec. 1895.

LICENSING EXPENSES. , lam in receipt of your letter of the 2nd inst„ asking:— Ist.—Do all the members of Committee whose names appear as having received payment of travelling expenses, reside more than three miles from the place of meeting. 2nd.—Have the amounts paid to the several members been the actual cost of the travelling expenses incurred by such members in attending a meeting of the Committee.

lp replv, I bee to state that I regret I am unable to give you information on these points, You willobservc that under paragraph (8.) of section 7 of "The Alcoholic Liquors Sale Control Act, 1893," the Local Authority liable to pay the ex- ' pepsea of members of Licensing Com'4nmccs is required to do so "on the for the same certified by the Chairman and the Clerk of the Licensing Committee."

All the vouchers for the expenses under notice arc certified to in the] mapiicr provided by law, and it is to be presumed'that the Ojlcefs charged witji tic responsibility of making tliese certificates have pot issued (hem without first satisfying themiclvcs that there was justification for doing I hive therefore referred your questions to flip Cjiairman pf the Licensing ppjnnittep, and, iipon' receipt of his repijr, nil! furpist with' a copy thereof. F. (J. MOOBE, .County Clerk.

To the Town Clerk, Masterton. 6th December, 1895. LICENSING EXPENSES. Iteferring to your loiter of the 2nd inst, I beg now to forward to you a copy of {he reply received from the pliairman of tiielicensing (sompit(epm answer to yod-r queries. ' '"" ''' ' : f.'G. MOOBE, County Clork,

Copy Licensing Com. mittco to the County Clerk, reply io your memo, of the 4th the subject of licensing expenses have to say that thcLiceninfi Committee, at pieetiug, resolved that toe travplljng espeus'cß payable to Committeemen residing beyond three miles ffop tho place of meeting, should'be commuted at sucji sum, as, regard being [lad to (lie distanpc which Committeepjpn baa to travel, was considered rcaBopablp, and tjiat'tJjefoucbcfsfrom time fo tijno prepared by tbe Clerk, 'and certified |o.bv me, were io accordance witb tliis resolution. I may add for the information ol the enquiring Ivocal Body, that this course is in conformity with the law as interpreted by the Supremo Court, A similar course is followed by the WairaTapa Licensing Committee, of which I am Chairman. (signed) T. Hutchison, Chairman Masterton Licensing Commit, tee. The Mayor said tlieir query with regard to whether all members resided within three miles of the place Of meeting had not been answered, The Clerk said he had written gain on the matter, iphe Mayor said he thought it was ofily prolonging the agony, Thoy could only point out the necessity of being carefalin theao- matters. 1 • Cr Sjmms said the Finance Commit liad gono fully iiito tlioniatter lifst night end found that Messrs Heßsor, Walker,' and T.' Chamberlain, livofl wiill within the threo mile radius. He thought it protest'sbijuld

Gr Feist said, ho did not think, as the vouchers Lad been passed, that tLey could do anything but pass the account, at the same time pointing out that the Council did not consider somo of the items woro 1 strictly in accordance with the law. The amounts charged by tlio Pahiatua and Eketahuna members, were rather curious, too. The Mayor said it was more a , matter of principle, than the extra; pound or so. He thought they had. better pass the account, The motion, that, the account be] paid, was then passed,