AUCKLAND LICENSING COMMITTEE.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 153, 27 June 1908, Page 5

AUCKLAND LICENSING COMMITTEE.

a . ... FTTROY HOTEL LICENSE. The adjourned meeting of the Ancleland Licensing Court was held this,morning, when a new application was made for the license of the Fitzroy Hotel" by Charles George Taylor. The police offered no objection. The* Magistrate questioned whether the' application' had been lodged in_ the prescribed-.time,..affd.rwhe-ther the clause giving the.ibench poster to waive the time limit -would cover such a wide case. that the meeting ; was_in._reality._the annual one, and that, therefore, the matter was brought, jap * well within time, it was decided to grant the application. It was also reported that improvements to the sanitary arrangements of the Empire Hotel and the lighting of four bedrooms at the Britomart 'Hotel, had been effected. '• -"- '" - - -—- ALEXANDRA HOTEL. -".' Mr. Singer, on behalf .of the licensee of the 'Alexandra Hotel (Federal-.street), intimated that' he 'had filed a petition which he desired the Chairman to peruse. Mr; R. W. Dyer, SJL, explained that the. meeting .had been.adjourned Only io hear one particular 'application, and they had no power to' case, which had been'previously" decided: "But," said Mr. '. Singer, ."1 have .filed the petition, .and: paid._th.e__co_sts..and it is now before your Worship." "'""" "And ~T" deny" thatrit is," -was—the reply, "and you haveno _status whatsoever for addressing the Bench any more than jpne .of the_public We are only hearing you on indulgence."' ","•"• Mr. Singer asked for a police report before next quarterly meeting, when ha would lodge a petition and call ev> dence in favour of a fresh application. •Mr. Dyer stated in reply that they could not prejudge such cases. Ha would also point out to Mr.. Singer the question of whether a-"petition could be lodged for a- licensee. .1 The matter was then dropped. - -