WAITEMATA LICENSING COMMITTEE.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 135, 7 June 1907, Page 2

WAITEMATA LICENSING COMMITTEE.

■ ANNUAL MEETING. mJf T 333211221 the Warfce- >^^ Onport So"™** Council Chammorni *S- tbe ehainmm (Mr. IT 'V - D J* er . *=-*L) presiding. The other members of the committee present were l^ 5 * J" Dnder - A- Alison. J. Edson. and G. E. White. Sab-lnspesior Gordon represented the police. TRANSFERS AND RENEWALS. *TTansfers were granted from H. S. iLooker to John Wm- Hannav Brieht (for tne Lake Hotel. Takapuna). and from Jasper Montgomery to Renie Basil (Masonic Hotel, Devonport). The following renewals of publicans' licenses were granted:—Ncrtheote, Hotel (Thomas Wm. Allen i; Luca3 Creek Hotel. Albany (Alexander Stevenson): Lake Hotel (John W. H. Bright); Hot Springs Hotel, Waiwera (Thomas Mincheri; Esplanade Hot*]. Devonport (John M. Franklin) ; Fails Hotel. Henderson (Henry Brown); Riverhead Hotel (Thomas Wm. Deacon i ; Masonic Hotel j (B. B. Raynes); Wade Hotel (Joseph! Bc-hollum): White Horse Hotel, Kumeu (Thomas Wm. Deacon, junr.) : Puhoi Hotel (James Titford).' The police reports concerning all the above houses were entirely satisfactory. Packet licenses were granted to the following boats of the Settlers' Steamship Company:—GaeL Orewa, Kawau, Kapanui, and Kotiti. APPLICATIO-N wnrIDRAWN. A RATEPAYER'S MEMORIAL. An. application was read from Andrew Joseph Farmer for an accommodation license for the Mansion House, Kawau Island, but Mr. Ralfe (clerk of the committee) explained that since -the application a. withdrawal notice had been sent , in. A number of Devonport r?sidents. | 'under the auspices of the National Alliance, have recently -signed a petition "which was to have been presented to the Committee, and in which a number of , reasons were urged in objection to the grantins of a license to Kawau Island. Among other points it was contended that a license was not required in the neighbourhood: that the quiet- of the place would be disturbed if the license were granted.: that there was no power , given in the Licensing Acts in force in I this colony to grant an accommodation | license, power only being given to grant j publicans' licenses, under section 5, j Alcoholic L-iqucrs Sale Control Act, j 1593. and that as required under this j section, there was not a population of seven hundred within a radius of two aniles from the Mansion House.

BAY OF PLENTT. (By Telesreph.—Own Correspondent.) WAIKL this day. At the adjourned meeting of the Bay of Plenty lAoensin-2 Committee yesterT the application of Mrs. Pilling for -renewal of the Ste-lins Hotel license. •p-as granted, subject to rooms complained of not beiryr acain utilised as bedrooms, THAMES. <5y Telegraph.—Own Correspondent .> THAMES, this day. The annual meeting of the Thames Licensing Commiw.ee was held at noon today Present: Mr. Bush. SAL (chairman). Messrs. Clark. Comer, Hornibrooke. West, and Captain Swindley- The police report, was. on the whole, saus-ia-ctorv. but extensive alterations and j improvements were suggested in connection with several hotels at the Thames. Ib some cases the police reported that the buildings were old and dilapidated. and that new buildings were required. All applications, after discussion, were granted, except those to which objections were taken as to the state of the buildings, and in these cases the applications were .adjourned to enable the committee to visit the houses.