HOTEL LICENCES GRANTED

Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27679, 8 June 1955, Page 11

HOTEL LICENCES GRANTED

CHRISTCHURCH DECISIONS The following applications were granted at the first meeting of the new Christchurch Licensing Committee yesterday:— Transfer of publican’s licence: Ronald McPherson Grant to Thomas George Anderson (Embassy Hotel); William Ewart Donnithorne to Robert Curragh (Excelsior Hotel); James Henry Smither to Alexander McDonald (Grand Hotel); Robert William Henry Claude Smith to Geoffrey Thomas Radcliffe (Grosvenor Hotel); Arthur Francis Gordon McGregor to James Henry Smither (Oxford Hotel); Robert Curragh to Arthur Francis Gordon McGregor (Prince of Wales Hotel).

Issue of publican’s licence: Thomas George Anderson (Embassy Hotel); Robert Curragh (Excelsior Hotel); Leonard Stanley Kirk (Foresters Hotel); Geoffrey Thomas Radcliffe (Grosvenor Hotel); Herbert Kendall (Lancaster Park Hotel); Leonard James Neil (New City Hotel); Shirley William Cunningham (New Railway Hotel); James Henry Smither (Oxford Hotel); Arthur Francis Gordon McGregor (Prince of Wales Hotel); Stanley Clarence Mearns Main (Racecourse Hotel): Colin McGregor (Waltham Arms Hotel).

Renewal of publican’s licence: James Cyril Harding (Black Horse Hotel): Douglas Alison (Bower Hotel); Reginald Herbert Rattray (Bush Inn Hotel); Dennis Coffey (Caledonian Hotel); Douglas Stallard (Carlton Hotel); Desmond Hurford Hancock (Central Hotel): David Samuel Angus W r eir (Clarendon Hotel); Bernard Wallace Lawrence (Club Hotel); Alexander Ballantyne (Coker’s Hotel); Aloysius Patrick Hubert Sweeney (Crown Hotel); Catherine Young (Dominion Hotel); Thomas Aspell (Eastern Hotel); Thomas Edward Johnston (Hotel Esplanade); George Forbes Smith (Gladstone Hotel); Percy Curtis (Gresham Hotel); Norman James Wallace (Heathcote Arms Hotel); Leslie William Jamieson (His Lordships Hotel); William Donald Smart (Imperial Hotel); Joseph Liddle Purdon (Islington Arms Hotel); John James Coffey (King George Hotel); Ashley George Faigan (Market Hotel); Alfred William Wells (Masonic Hotel); Thomas Cunningham Malcolm (McKendry’s Hotel); John Green (New Albion Hotel); James Vincent McCormack (New Brighton Hotel); Cecil Henry Corliss (New Wellington* Hotel); Peter Dalliessi (New Zealander Hotel); Benjamin Perry (Occidental Hotel); Myra Ethel Mercia Pearce (Papanui Hotel); Herbert Robert Woodley (Provincial Hotel); Ann Isabella Lawrence Hancock (Riccarton Hotel); Robert Douglas Vance (Royal Hotel); Denis John Coffey (Royal George Hotel); William Alonzo Morris (Sandridge Hotel); Andrew Kyle (The Shades Hotel); Trevor Charles Watson (Southern Cross Hotel); Charles Roy Hartshorne (Star Hotel); John Clifton Ramsden (Star and Garter Hotel); James Reginald Bonner (Storeys Tourist Hotel); Robert Hunter Dickson (Tattersails Hotel); Frank Higham (United Service Hotel); Hanson Jack Home Fraser (Warner’s Hotel); William Walter Moseley Percival (White Hart Hotel); William Trevor Gifford (White Swan Hotel); Feliz Augustine Seigert (Zetland Hotel).

Renewal of wholesale licence: Ballins Breweries (New Zealand), Ltd.; Bishop and Company, Ltd.; Frederick ‘ and Sons, Ltd.; Dalgety and Company, Ltd.; Quill Morris (1936): Ltd.; James Shand and Company, Ltd.; Frank A. Cook, Ltd.; Fletcher, Humphries and Company, Ltd.; Mating and Company, Ltd.; New Zealand Breweries, Ltd. Renewal of wine-seller’s licence: Ronald McPherson Grant; Robert Gregory Parnell; Rochdale Cider Company, Ltd.; Rowe and Company (New Zealand', Ltd.; William Atkinson Green; John Francis Douglas Green. An application by George Milton Julius and Russell Ewing Hastie for the issue of a new wine-seller’s licence was dismissed by the committee. The chairman (Mr Raymond Ferner, S.M.) explained that the committee had no power to grant such a licence.