TOURIST-HOUSE LICENCE

Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26039, 16 February 1950, Page 4

TOURIST-HOUSE LICENCE

APPLICATION BY THE LODGE

CONSIDERATION BY COMMISSION

An application for a tourist-house licence for The Lodge at Hanmer Springs has been made by the Lodge Company to the Hurunui Licensing Committee, which has referred it to the Licensing Control Commission. Statistical information relating to guests has been forwarded by the company to the commission. This information was given yesterday by an official of the company, who denied a report that it was not proceeding with an application in terms of the commission’s decision authorising the grant of a tourist-house licence for “an area lying within a radius of two miles of the Hanmer Post Office.” Under such a licence, the licensee may only sell and dispose of liquor on the premises to: “(a) Any person who is for the time being a lodger living or staying in the licensed premises, or an employee of the licensee, 'for consumption on the premises; or (b) any person actually partaking of a meal in a room set apart and used as a diningroom, for consumption by that person as faart of the meal.” The Hanmer Hospital buildings for both soldier and civilian patients are in separate grounds from The Lodge, the control of the Hanmer Thermal Springs Reserve being vested in the Minister of Health.