ARCH HILL LICENSING ELECTION.

Auckland Star, Volume XX, Issue 59, 11 March 1889, Page 5

ARCH HILL LICENSING ELECTION.

(To the Editor.)

Sir,—ln reply to the letter of " Temperance Voter," inquiring whether it is true if the Committee who were in last year promised to grant a license if some hundreds of pounds were spent in alterations, I have «mply fco append the letter received from ijhem by ma ;— .A.uci<XA??n, January 17th, 1888. Mr Mantrhara,—ln reply to your inquiry re •wch Hiil license to Swan Hotel, wo have decided to grant yon' the license on 9th ,Tune,'lßß3, provided you get tl'ne alterations effected as per olaii lodged. Tl "OjIAS FP.OST, J. O'Haka, Geoi?-ge Taylor, Chairman. Upon the faith of this assurance nearly E4OQ has been spent, and I leave it to the "fair minds of voters to say whether the trablic faith has not been committed to me by the representatives of the ratepayers for this license.—Yours, etc, Thomas Maugham.

(To the Editor.) ?IR,-—I am in a position to reply to " A ■Temperance Voter," and can state positively that no Committee has ever promised, conditionally or unconditionally, any license to the proposed White Swan, wine!) I believe your corret'poraden t refers to. It k admitted thafc somt? private, arrtmgtmmt was made with three it-ejiibers of the Committee, but as two of thet?u resigned their position rather than yraufc fche license, 00 honest >- elector can i'cfi! in any aY bound by siioli an arrangement. Mr Jagger has "been lreq?.cntljr told hi the tt ; osb emphatic manner by. both the people * ihe districb and the nomiuated and Licensing Commitvees thafc the ooflse is not required, and if he prefers to take the advice of one man, he must bear tos loss as any other person who makes a bad bargain. The Eob Roy Lodge cannot *VY cePeated in Arch Hill, for the district is *Qiy bound for one year by what the elected •w® members do in comnrittee.^ —I am, etc.,

W. J. Maodekmott, ~A bona fide resident ratepayer of Arch