LICENSING ACT BREACHES

Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27988, 7 June 1956, Page 5

LICENSING ACT BREACHES

GENERAL WARNING TO PUBLICANS

LYTTELTON COMMITTEE MEETS

A general warning to licensees of hotels who persistently infringe the licensing laws was issued by the chairman of the Lyttelton Licensing Committee (Mr Rex C. Abernethy, S.M.) at the annual meeting of the committee yesterday. One thing the committee would like to have mentioned was the issue of certificates of the fitness of applicants for publicans’ licences, he said. Some publicans kept the law exactly. Others had occasional lapses. Where a licensee was caught' on two or three occasions with 20 or 30 persons in the bar after hours, then it could be said that he was not a good publican, and the matter should be watched when he next applied for a certificate of fitness. If his conduct was deemed unsatisfactory, then a certificate might be refused. The police renort to the committee, presented by Senior-Sergeant J. L. Graham, said that, on the whole, the conduct of the hotels in the district was satisfactory.

Applications for transfer of licenses were granted as follows: Albion Hotel. Lyttelton, from Howard James Smith to Russell Sylvester Chandler: Saxon Hotel. Lyttelton, from Frank Mitchell to William George McCallum.

The following applications for licences were granted: Albion Hotel. Lytteltdn, Russell Sylvester Chandler: Lyttelton Hotel. Lyttelton. Leonard Frederick Woodsford; Little River Hotel, Little River, Allen Thomas Hunt; Marine Hotel, Sumner, Alexander Leckie; Metronole Hotel. Akaroa. Eric James Smith: Mitre Hotel. lyttelton, Thomas Govan Auld; Royal Hotel. T.vttelton. Colin MacGregor: Saxon Ho+el, Lyttelton, William George McCallum. Renewals of licences were granted as follows: British Hotel. Lyttelton. Albert Franklinr Bruce Hotel. Akaroa. Eric John Little: Canterbury Hotel. Lyttelton. Alan Scott; Cave Rock Hotel. Sumner. Teter William King: Crown Hotel, Duvauchelle. William Alexander Anderson; Empire Hotel Lyttelton. Alan James Bisman: Grand Hotel, Akaroa. John Frederick Alexander Fox: Madeira Hotel, Akaroa. Walter Francis Barbour: Ocean View Hotel, Governor’s Bay. David E''gers’ Valiev Inn. Heathcote, John Alfred Randle: Woolston Hotel. Woolstoci. Robert Samuel Stafford. Accommodation licences were for the Hilltop Hotel (Tra Desmond Beattie) and the Wheatsheaf Hbtel, Teddington (Mary Elizabeth Packer).

R. Powley and Company (Canterbury), Ltd., was granted a wholesale licence, and winesellers* licences were granted to Lpo Camnbell Waters. Navland street, Sumner, and J. G. Lewis (Redcliffs). Ltd.. Redcliffs.