NEW HOTELS AND LICENSING COMMISSIONERS.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 673, 12 September 1876, Page 3

NEW HOTELS AND LICENSING COMMISSIONERS.

Sir, -1 waj very niuch astonished on -reiding Mr Cuminipg'* litter in your J *t i*sue at the conduct i f ibo Licensing Cotniiii3*>Ouers, if lh H re i« no redres* 1 auch a jfl*ni)L' cue of » persistent perpt- j tuition of ii justic. the sooner t lie hen I sing l*wi are merded the better. I should think, that the pres nt Ait in providing for the appointment of Commission" r», intended them fur »oinetbmg betUr than airing their lheoretic.il opinion', a good deal of which was going on during my ah»rt visit to the Licensing Court At the other day. Tin- travelling public generally will grumble anl put up with indifferent trputnieut r«<her than .m ike any complaint. I could not h?]j> Dunking th»t if thoio tame men Mure mu uon the roud they would entendi.i wtrj differ ont opiniom. i have receired Tetj indilFereit treatment «r.ii hare hdnl a gojd many others complain of t'>e treatino'it they nc-ir* theintrlvei na^ their bonei, in plai a where there is only one hou»e of entiTtmnmeiit. Ofoourse ererjtbtng a miulo very rosy nd comfortable for a Commissioner, should he on. c iv six mouhs or so conde-cend, or bo obliged to vuit a hotel. If the gr«*i> agricuhural centre of VVaikato crnnot support two houtat, it ia rather ttrang* time KiliikJii h<« two, Cambridge ihree, Ni^mawatiia two, and t-o on. Before now I have hud to travel on to Kihikihi bo-cau-0 there wafl no room in the Central, and h<ive heard of many others having to do the same thing. There mutt b* tome Jittle motive unworthy of large mmdad <CoQ)inuiiouar*, or they do not tike the trouole to ascertain the requirements of the plice. Had they done so, lam certain that the license would nev<r have been rotated to an applicant so well and favourably known. They may have the right to refuse, but in exercising it without very good grouuda. tbej ure doiu^ a wrong to the public its well as to tun parties whose money is inverted.-— I am, Ac, Fkeu Tkadk. Alexandra, Sept 7th, 1876.