LICENSING COMMITTEE

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XLI, Issue 5969, 9 June 1913, Page 2

LICENSING COMMITTEE

j ANNUAL MEETING. : i Tbe annual meeting of the Tauranga i I.iceniiig Cun/tnitle. was held in thi . Courthouse on Tluisday. Present- : Me-.srs R. \V. Dyer (Chairman). K. : King, J. Alien, j. Pohle , C. C. Noi- , ri«. aud Colon 1 Ward. Sergeant EaLs, if Kot-rua. repre•tnttO the police. The trau.-f.rof a publicm'^ license ; fur tne Palace Hotel, Te A eha, lrom li. Coldw ter to A). Lawless wa uianted. Police reports being favourable, the i.-sue «.f publican.' license^ wergranted to: A. Brown. Star Hotel Tauran.'a M. Q irk, Masonic ta.tel, Tautanga 6. Tanner, Tauranga Hotel, Tauranga

M. Lawless, I'alaee Hot. I, Te Aroha. The isaie of a publican's license to K. \V. Stewart for the Nottingham Castle Hotel, AL.rrinsville, was then ton idered. Constable Lowry, d Morrinsville. reported that ihe repairs, etc., tv the hotel had been completed. He stated i-hat the whole place has teen thoroughly done, up, Udroonis, i.aisagei, sitting rooms, _nd bar parlours having been paperal and painted. The whole of tr.e out*idi of the building has been painted; rotteo verandah pillar removed and a new one put in. An up-to-date urinal, with concrete floor, has been erecte I. The yard has been well gravelkd ai.d all ties and rubbish reu.oved. Cases are now stacked in a satisfactory place tciie distance lrom the building. It has been noticed that there have been mere drunken men in the township lately than forme, ly. but the constable stated he has watcoed ihe conduct of the licensee carefully and has seen nothing that he could take exception to. The whole cause of the drunkenness has been owing to _ number of roadmen beirnj camped doing road work. Constable Lowry was swo.n and sUted, in reply to <}ue«t!o.:s, that he noticed marks of a rnou^e htlo in the ceiling of one room. He considered the house was in very good order. He could n it find any fault with it. To Mi Allen.—At any time he eoulJ

not call the huiJding dilapidated. The room in which he noticed the mouse hole had not been repapered at the time of his inspection. To Colonel Ward. —The walls of the hotel, as far as he knew, were not vermin pi oof. IL VV. Stewart, the licensee, was present. The Chairman informed him that the application would be granted, but the Committee desired that thi building be mad^ proof against rats and mice. Mr Stewart undercook in reply to the Chairman that he would comply with the committee's wish. Ke the Hot Springs Hotel, Okoroire, the Chairman said it had been reported that the license hed refused* accommodation to people at Easter. Mr Sharp said there wa? an application for the transfer of the license. Sergeant Eales said that this was tha fir9t Constable Lowry had heard of the I mattrr. It was a seriout question, ant! ( if the names were furnished inquiry would be made, Mr Allen said he had been informed that accommodation had been refused to residents of Auckland. Mo names were furnished and it was decided to grant a renewal of the license to F. Chill ing worthy for whom Mr Maltby appeared, Mr Sharp appeared in support of an application , for a transfer of the license from F. Chillingworth to G. Henderson. —Granted. Sergeant Esles reported that certain apartments of the Palace Hotel, Rotorua, required papering. The floor in outside watercloset \e rotten and broken through and requires repairing.

In reply to the Kerch, Sergeant Eales eaid that Mr Davis had promised to have the work done.

Mr Sharp, tor Messrs) Hancock and Co., read a letter stating the work would be carried out by the September meeting.

The Hench decided to grant the renewal of the license to G. Donaldson, on the distinct understanding that the improvements were effected by the September meeting. Mr Dyer intimated tbat the police would then report on the matter. If the work *ere not done it would be regarded as a breach of faith. Sergeant Eales reported that a number of apartments in the Lake House Hotel, Ohinermitu, require papering. A window in No. 12 room is broken. The balustrade on the lake side of the hoi Id ing is in need of repair. The drainage, which was recemmended by the Health Department and promieed by the owners to be done, has not yet been commenced. * Sergeant Eales said men had been at i work on the building, and the job was to be completed by September. If carried out, as promised, it would be very satisfactory. Mr Sharp intimated tbat tbe plans were to be forwarded to him, but had not arrived owing to a mistake in the address. Mr Sargeant, health officer, was sworn, and in answer to questions, said he was not satisfied with the sanitary arrangements at the hotel. If the planß were carried out he would then not be altogether satisfied. He detailed other improvements which he ' considered desirable. The Bench granted the renewal of the license lo JE. W. G. Smith on the understanding that tho improvements are carried out by the next quarterly meeting The Chairman also suggested that the licensee should confer with Mr Sargeant regarding sanitary mat- j tors. * I Police reports being favourable, re- j newal of publicans' licenses were j granted to:-- I K. L. Somen;, Hot Springs Hotel, j Te Aroha j E. Wafkinson, Geyser Hotel, J Whflkarewarcwa j G. M. Brown. Grand Hotel, Uotc- j rua ! J. McSweeney, Grand Hotel. Te j Aroha j S. L. Rygrave, Oxford Hotel, ; Tirau j r. Farquhar, Waihou Hotel, Wai- j hou ; N. Quirk, Commercial Hotel. : Tauranga. '

I Mr Sharp, for Mr fly-grave, licensee |nf the Oxford Hotel, Tirau, infmated j there was an application for three ; month j' leave of absence. \ The polio offered no objection and j the application \va» granted. Th. renewal of an accommodation i lie n:0 '0 li. Arseott for the Talisman I Hotel, Katikati, was grunted. i Kenewal of packet licenses were j granted to the 'Northern S eamship ; Company for the itenmers Tasman, j Ngapuhi", Aupouri. « JS! gada*n and I Da pi ne. ! The renewal of a wholesale liccn>e I was gninttd tv (Ju;rness Hro.. I'au!rang««. 'I. V. Le-js, Kotorua, applied for the > !>i!,e\\al of a whol sale li ense. I S recant Eales reported' that Lees ! was convicted in two charges of sly Uiog-selli gmi the Kotorua Court on | Ja-.tarv _U, 1913. I The Chairman intin.cted that an npi peal Hgmnst the decision was perding. | The Committee decided to grant |th license. I Mr U. A. Sharp appears! for * 1 large r.umhtr of the ahuve-named I appl.cant'-. I Mi Dytr announced that the Com- ! mittce wished the p.lice to report on jail little irregulatides which they noI ticed in connection with licensed I houst_. The Committee alsu thought '■ tarred _nd fancied footpaths leading to the conveniences of I.censed premise J bhould he piovided *o that people could walk to and from conveniences without getting their feet wet.

Wolfe's Schnapps is to ordinary .spirits what champagne is to ordmI ary wines. Giacomo Maseiorini, 100 years old, and Luigi Pongelli, aged 1(10, walked three and four miles respectively to record their votes at tho Swiss parliamentary elections tit -Tecino. NOUGHT A BOTTLK. "I had })ains in my leu's which the doctor said was rheumatism,"! writes Mr Kohl. Cochrane, Builder, \Yaimiha, N.Z. "His lotion clid me no good and I .suffered misery. 1 saw a friend using some; liniment which he told me. was Chamberlain's Pain Balm and offered me his bottle lo try it. It did me so much good that I bought a'bottle myself aud was . so^on iVeo of all pains." -Lor sale by all dealers in medjciin\ i peer-ability of British states- { men. Here is a man entrusted with the "means of raisin^- a national income approaching two hiudred millions per annum, and his personal share of national riches which makes possible this stupendous lr\v yields him something under Ts per week. .Looking back as far I as the days of Pitt, we shall j find no Chancellor of the Lxehefjuer was a wealthy man as proportion of wealth is gauged by the earnings of a successful merchant." Sir Henry Lucy, in his letter to the Sydney Morning Herald says : "In the examination and cross-examination of Cabinet Ministers before the Marconi Commit-too perhaps nothing more sharply struck the public ear than Mr Lloyd-George's simply frank statement that at the age of -*>(), after a life of strenuous work, his private resources did not yield more than an annual income of iMOO. It would be difficult to put in stronger light the splendid im-