TWO HOTELKEEPERS WARNED

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 134, 8 June 1929, Page 12

TWO HOTELKEEPERS WARNED

UNSATISFACTORY CONDUCT.

PIROXGIA AND OHAUPO.

(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.)

HAMILTON, Friday.

The Raglan Licensing Committee today considered the applications made for the renewal of licenses for the Alexandra Hotel, Pirongia, and the Ohaupo Hotel. In both cases there were adverse police reports.

After hearing evidence Mr. Wyvcrn Wilson, S.M., told Allen Eustace Hood that the Bench was very dissatisfied with his , conduct of the Alexandra Hotel. There was sufficient evidence to find that he was not a fit and proper person to hold a license, but the Bench would give him another opportunity by adjourning his application for three months.

Stephen Tapp, licensee of the Ohaupo Hotel, had been convicted of »ellin.? liquor after hours, and police witnesses said they suspected that illicit trading was still going on. The chairman said the committee could only warn Tapp that it would take very little more indeed to bring him within the letter of the law. Unfortunately licensing committees could not refuse to renew a license simply because a licensee indulged in after-hours' trading. However, if he came before another Court and wns convicted for after-hours' trading he would probably have his license endorsed again, and that would put him out. With that warning the license would be renewed.