THE TE AWAMUTU LICENSING UNKNOWN

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 669, 26 September 1876, Page 2

THE TE AWAMUTU LICENSING UNKNOWN

Sir, — I was in hope* that jou would hire be mi spared imy further infliction from mo ra the To Awamutu lii % en-e. Air Lewis's letter, or rather adn-ittsemeut, would have been passed over without any comment, but now another small beir man, yclept " NfoJeration, ' appears on tbo scene. With jour pei mission I will pay i hum boih a "little «t ention, more th-iri tliej merit, ufter which i. will nmintain silence no matter whti m»y be written on tlio aibjeut,. I will pass o»er all personal remarks or rcflecious with silent respeci, nnd cay a few words^ to Mr L. first. The burden of his song refers to mafc'ers of which few in Wuikuto were nwire before, "whnt a nice hotel I keep," "what would tha hotels in Waikato have been if I bar) not cxne to the district ;" "table equal to anything in WaiLato ; noth ng to equal my nice clean beds this niole ol Aucklnnd." Wines, spirits, &v, and stabling he SJundelh not hit trumpet about ; but did it ne?er oortir to Mr L, in meditating over matters in general, that there must ho some rau»e for t o*e nice bed* only being filled once, that it mut bo on account of their b ing so ntuu'i better thin the generd p iblic are ac ustonied t<» the* could not sle p comfortably. Hence the re -son doubt leu of their only being oc-upied once. It mmt J nevertheless be a source of greit -svnf it— tion nnd cons ilaa-ui, evfwi in dull t ma, to mow thiit he is a model hotel keeper although it is not r.-ry good taste in him to pubisu it lh« old ilentitio* w.h uot fail to appreciate the kindly maim r in wlncli he p,i s Ilicm on the hack. It would »lomil -st bi> do 10 les« eomplacen'lv (if at al ) if he w.is situated tfie «am© us the unfortunUf owner of the hotel building o»cr the way, which I believe I a-n correct in stating had the roof on before Mr V* house blocks were in th* grmnd, nnd is in every war batter ndipted for hotel purposes Why it is not. license! is best known to 'he Commi-sione™ Hid it ben Mr La house to whuh the licence was refused, which might hare been done with as much if not more justi>o, he would have t'iou<;h it a *cry gn>at har.f■hip, and doubtl ts wou'd hare made a vory grojt cry a>.d lameut.iiion, and j'J-tly so too. Hh present house no <l mb 1 . <o*t a gnod 'eal (ff moiity, but iiff.ir In very inditTcrenb »ccommo.lntimi ; th»Tf is not n citling room, public or private, dmn stairs. H"W a mm ivlio has hid sj much experience in turning sia!)i<-n into hi>lel«, chunking beastly and dugracelul acoomodatiou ni'o woll re^ulatt-d en-tabliithm-.ut) &u. Ac , could overlu >k a matter of such importmue I am at a loin to conceive, in less ex^fneiioed hunls it would be louud very inconvenient. Sound bm own trumpet »<< lie doe*, it \>Ay*, eipecially whj o allowed in the coiretponlauoe uo'umus without chirte. I will say afew words to "Moderation" and only a few. The source f>ot) w hence he evidently got In* tun ( ir.i«iou, juil^in^ from the hazi which pervailet hu Jtti r, I might call it au ttnpeuetable fi»j?, there miiot h»ro been a good dt>»l of the local br w g'ing aheitp. If he kno.vn as urn !■ a»»out his own oocupttion (it «u> ) as h» d >es about the hikj^o, uutt rof his le'ter it must pay him lun inomi ly. H muit alt-o he of cmisi I r*l4e importaixo )ho throe Tailors if Pooley-u r*et are no where beside him \W, the peop c of Te Awannuu. puts them entirely in j the shade. I would a lvi»e ' Moderation," giatis, if hu fenls luchaed, tn take hm beer in mo leration, pay foi i , or, as lun custom iiuy be, put it on the -late. Mr L won d wurely Joe him run up a tidy score, if not it would be the lii^uth <>f in^radtudv. Bitwoen that, am) rairidtn<r his own business hi* time mi^htbe pre ty well, and morn advantngeoa^ly neo>ipi'd. T»>e p op c cf To Awmuuiu ( Kit "MoiUi»t on") or of any other District, if tt>ev do uot *M'h a liuenne grauted, havo their remedy in the Pririuijutve Clause of the Act. Any one mvektiug money in hotel propt-rty docs so knowing nuuh to bo the law, hut in this caie. or any other where this hai not been taktn advantage of, the rtqurementi of the Licensing Act being iv every paiticular, more than (uifillod, refusal ot license 13 little lets than • |'ieoe of hi^ti-hftil Ind inj istiue. Cominiasioneri, m a rale, ai« con t«utr with

s.tisfying t!i-msphe? on H,., following: -Respmabihfy of applicant lor license, po ice report ©u ncconituodat.oti and sUto of repairs of houso, hearing compiaints if any brought before th«n in the iuuhl courie. fa the pra.ent c».« they p»y little altciitioD to those thing*, and are a.togetLel- uncanny. -I , m &1) \y UrMMrvo. • Waikato B.evrery, Sept M 22nd 1876 " t