LICENSING COURT, HAMILTON AND KIRIKIRIROA.

Waikato Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1433, 8 September 1881, Page 2

LICENSING COURT, HAMILTON AND KIRIKIRIROA.

• -V [Before H. W. Northcrof t, Esq., R.M., (chairman), S. S. Graham, and WP. Chepmell, EBq., J. P. Commissioners.] Application for New License at Morrinsville. This was an application of S. W. Buck for a license for a house to be known as flic Phcenix Hotel, Thamesstreet, Morritiaville. The plans, &c,, were duly deposited. Mr O'Neill appeared for the applicant and Mr W. M. Hay represented the householders signing the memorial and petition opposing the license as also an objector. (Mr Brown landlord of the Nottingham Castle Hotel.) Mr O'Neill took a preliminary objection to the memorial, which did not comply with the Act, inasmuch as it had not been deposited with the clerk seven clear days before the hearing. Only Mr Brown had notified the applicant of his intention to oppose, and his name was not on the memorial. After a considerable amount of .argument between counsel, it was finally decided by the Bench to take the petitioners simply as objectors to the license. Mr O'Neill then read the application for the license, with the list of names attached to the certificate, detailiug the steps already taken by Mr Buck in accepting a tender and ordering the timber, etc. He also dwelt at some length on the necessity which existed for a second house at Morrinsville, po'ntingout that the township was on the mam road to the goldfields, and would before long be the site of a railway terminus, to which latter the proposed house was in close proximity. It was also probable that a railway would be commenced hero, and run up the Thames Valley to the Lake district, in which case hotel accommodation would be much rpquired. Mr Kay took exception to some of the names on the certificate, but The Bench decided that the names, being those of settlers having a large atake in the district, were satisfactory. Mr Buck was then put in the box. and deposed that ten of the names had been procured by him, and he could swear to their authenticity. In cross-examination witness admitted that two or three of the names were those of men in the employment of Messrs Morrin and Studholme, although set clown in the certificate as ' ' farmers, " but in each case they were householders. Mr Hay objected to the granting of the license on the grounds that there was no house for which to grant one. Clause 15 of the Amendment Act, 1874, laid down that the house must be erected before a licence could be granted {vide Schedule). In this case, he submitted there was no house. The Bench decided that Mr Hay's objection was fatal. Mr O'Neill said many licenses had been granted under similar conditions, and referred to the hotel at Oxford. The Chairman said conditional licenses such as those referred to may have been granted, but there had been no oppo^i- I tion. The Bench could not grant the application in the face of the opposition. Mr Q'Neill said it appeared to him that what was just in the one case was so in the other, whether there was' opposition or not. The application was refused. Commercial Hotel, Hamilton. A permanent transfer of the license of this hotel from W. H. Pearce to J. S. Milne was granted. This was all the business.

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