WATERFRONT LICENSE.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 138, 12 June 1926, Page 18

WATERFRONT LICENSE.

(To the Editor.) Sir, —I have read with interest the comments on the above subject that have recently appeared in your columns, and after considering the whole matter in all its bearings, concur with the action of the committee. Among other things, I foresee in a waterfront hotel at least the partial removal of congestion from an important junction (Queen and Customs Streets) by an undesirable element that congregates there, especially from five to six o'clock in the evenings. If the waterfront hotel does nothing other or further than attract and keep even a portion of that element on the waterfront, citizens may be truly thankful to the committee. In my humble opinion, the committee have, after consideration, given proper judicial weight to the evidenc adduced. Such being the case, to have come to any other decision would have meant belying their name and status as a "licensing" committee, irrespective of any previous proceedings. An able and famous New Zealand Judge of the Supreme Court once remarked that persons who never changed their minds, under any conditions or circumstances, rendered themselves liable ultimately to be found looking for the road leading to a mental institution. —I am, etc., APROPOS. (To the Editor.) Sir, —Much fuss has been created by the granting of an hotel license for an up-to-date and convenient building neai our waterfront. May I' suggest, sir that if memorialists or others wish tc render a service to the public, that they ascertain why certain licenses are re newed regularly for inferior buildings where no food or accommodation is available. After ejecting the last of 'the five to six drinkers, the doors are locked till the next day. It has been mentioned that a certain Act of Parliament or regulation requires adequate provision being made for boarders or travellers at each hotel. I feel sure that these requirements are not always fulfilled and I have had two unfortunate experiences of having to trudge from one hotel to another on being informed that "no accommodation is made foi boarders, or meals supplied."—l am etc., N. ZEDDER.