CONDUCT OF PURIRI HOTEL.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 136, 11 June 1929, Page 11

CONDUCT OF PURIRI HOTEL.

CRITICISM BY MAGISTRATE

LICENSE RENEWAL DEFERRED.

(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.)

THAMES, Monday,

The conduct of the Puriri Hotel by the licensee, G. H. Pearson, was considered to-day by the Thames Licensing Committee, which adjourned for three months an application for the renewal of the license. Sergeant RowelJ, in his report, referred to a guest wliOj after spending his money in the hotel, had, been found in an unconscious, bruised and bleeding state under some scrub some miles from the premises. Mr. Clendon, for the licensee, said that the police had been unable to secure a conviction in the case referred to, and contended that this rendered any charge made by the police in this connection an absolute nullity. iSergeant Powell said the police had not lodged ""any formal objection to the renewal of the license, the owner of which had since been convicted of illegal trading on a Sunday. The renewal of the license was entirely a matter for the committee. The police were not satisfied with the' licensee's^ behaviour toward the guest referred to.' Mr. F. W. Platts, S.M.: The committee take a serious view of your representations concerning , this , man whose conduct in the case you mention I myself described as disgraceful. The application for a renewal of the license of the hotel will be adjourned for three months. Mr. Clendon: May I take it that if Pearson conducts his hotel well in that period his license will be renewed? The Chairman: Oh, no, we cannot say that at all. The committee will turn the circumstances over in their nr.nds in the meantime.