HOTELS LOSE TRADE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 137, 11 June 1932, Page 7

HOTELS LOSE TRADE.

NEW HIGHWAY ROUTES.

PROBLEM FOR LICENSEES. REARRANGEMENT NECESSARY. (By Telegraph.—Own Corresnondent.) GISBORNE, this day. The difficult position of hotels, of which the trade has been seriously affected by the deviation of main highways, was further discussed at the annual meeting of the Gisborne Licensing Committee yesterday, when a resolution was passed, with one dissentient, urging an amendment of the law to enable the granting of certificates by . committees and authorising the removal of licenses

within districts without any restriction ae to distance.

Special reference was made to the Motu Hotel, formerly on the main traffic route from Auckland to Giebornc, which had been removed from contact with the travelling public. Mr. P. H. Harper, S.M., chairman of the committee, recalled that a motion had been carried by the Bay of Plenty Licensing Committee in 1931, and again at the 1932 annual meeting. The Motu Hotel wae a case, he said, to which the existing statutory conditions relating to the removal of licensee applied with special force.

Inspector P. Halloran strongly supported the motion, pointing out that the Motu Hotel was not the only one affected in this district by the variation of the main traffic avenues. The district was not overloaded with licenses, and it should be possible to amend the legislation to permit of a rearrangement of their distribution, with a view to meeting the convenience of the travelling public better than at present.