LICENSEES WARNED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 210, 6 September 1939, Page 4

LICENSEES WARNED.

TOO MANY CONVICTIONS. HEAVIER PENALTIES LIKELY. A warning that unless the requirements of the Licensing Act were more fully complied with heavier penalties would be inflicted where convictions were entered was given to-day by the chairman. Mr. W. R. McKean, S.M.. at the quarterly meeting of the Auckland Licensing Committee. In most cases the police reports were satisfactory, saiil Mr. McKean, but there were" 13 hotels concerned where persons had been convicted of being found unlawfully on premises, and iu one case a barman had been coinicted of booUmaking.

"During the quarter 50 conviction* have been recorded, which indicates that the position is not altogether satisfactory. nnd I can only say that the committee hopes that from now 011 some greater attempt will be made by licensees to observe the requirements of the Act." said Mr. McKean. "If not. then the penalties are likely to be substantially increased; 50 convictions in one quarter is, in our opinion, too large a number."

No opposition being offered by SubInspector Flanagan, who appeared for the police, the following transfers were granted: Hotel Auckland. Henry Charles Hudson to Jack Alfred Donne; New Wynyard Arms Hotel, Alfred E. Saintv to Thomas Edward Tasker; Star Hotel, Arthur Alexander Tuart to William Stanley Morrison; New Criterion, William J. Nankivell to Joseph Henry Winter.