LIQUOR ON STEAMER.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 137, 13 June 1927, Page 9

LIQUOR ON STEAMER.

OPEN LICENSE SOUGHT. APPLICATION" ADJOURNED. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) TAURANGA, Saturday. The Northern Steamship Company applied at the annual meeting of the Tauranga Licensing Committee for the renewal of the packet license for the s.s. Matangi, and also for a license between Tauranga and Auckland and other New Zealand ports. Mr. B. P. Andrews, reprc-entiniz the company, said owing to the frequent necessity of changing the company's steamers to other runs at short notice, it had been found desirable to have the packet licenses issued in the manner applied for for the Matangi, and they had been so granted in Auckland and elsewhere. The company's object in applying for the Matangi's license in Tauranga was to enable the Borough Council to get the benefit of the revenue. Otherwise the license would be aplied for in Auckland. The chairman said according to hia reading of the Act, the committee could issue a license only between certain definite terminal ports, which must be stated on the license. He would be prepared to adjourn the application until the next quarterly meeting, tc enable the company to quote authorities for 'he issue of the license in the mannt-r desired. The company would nav a proportional part of the annual :\-V \r, 'he prescribed manner until the application was heard. Mr. Andrews agreed to th : - course.