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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 128, 2 June 1927, Page 10

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A LICENSING COiEDT? MEETDTG AT PRIVATE XO«a» "ALL'S WELL TX PARXmy^ The annual meeting «f tj* Licensing Committee. fi«d for day at the Tarnd! PuWfc lakr,— a comedy. At tie appointed time for the » llw . ing to commence nobody had pat i. appearance to open the bnaoW-2 after several interested personThiS! Fathering had vigorously shaken t£ front door, all thought* of admission vanished. *^"*^ "I>H n« hoM the meeting h» ti» Wl yard." wa* one suggestion offered. ♦* would l»e nif< i out in the nn,* *„** following iTi irk. * At this st«;re it vas discovered iw wa« not a quorum, the only meanS present in addition to Mr. R. C. CuttaT S.U, being Mr. M. M. McCallaa. A way out of the difficulty wax triad by the presence of the miad ef Sβ geant Rock, repiefcejjting the poliiv, mentioned tJiat Mr. A. u. other member of the Lioensiag Cbanmi tee, lived in an adjoining ettmt, aM that he wa* c-«nfin«d to his home fc? "Thi« meeting will he adjovmed," aril Mr. Cutten with just the tram smile, and the clerk of Uie Ooart, *4»' had been arranging hie paoeri on front steps of the h'brmry, fating thea up. The objective of the gathering «-« now Xo. 5, BirOw(«od Cresacnt, and afar much scanning of numbers om Uμ gate* in the nascent the how* wm duly located. With Mr. CvUt-n leading the m»r followed by tbe }k.lkx« wrgeaat ra eii! form, the i.hat paaatfl tkrawh tbe palo n]t]*-xr<'A to caut* deep on Uip |»ait of nearliy rceideaU. wh* aa| evidentJy no idea of the peaceful mntiitf 1 that inspired the invasion. Mr. Clements, who it a ?»ve his unexporicid rlFitora a mjf | dial welcome, and the adjourned «Mtja* of the l**rjM-U Lioensiag OamuttH, began in a }ururiou«4y fnrniinrnii rtmwjaj' loom. "Evcrj-tiing is aliight in ffcnrifl said Sergeant Rock. The tkne Mdg have been well conducted. ,, "Lioenscc granted," MLid Mr. OitbetL There is a transfer in tht owe «|, ihe Windsor Castle Hot,el," Mid tfe' clerk. "Grajjt nd also." said Mr. Cntten. The meeting lasted exactly one Bism% and as it was a glorious day, Ibt tmga> rrat* oectaert to take a stroll ***—I|%<J| Domain on Ins way back to the city.