HOTEL LICENSEES WARNED

Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27993, 13 June 1956, Page 11

HOTEL LICENSEES WARNED

SELWYN COMMITTEE SITTING

“TOO MANY BREACHES OF ACT ”

“The committee is not at all happy With the conduct of the hotels in this particular area over the last 12 months,” said the chairman of the Selwyn Licensing Committee (Mr L. N. Ritchie. S.M.), at Leeston yesterday. “It appears that approximately onethird of the licensees have been convicted for breaches of the Licensing Act, and this is an increase oyer the previous year, and the committee is disturbed that this is the position. “It feels that it is only fair and right to warn licensees. All the Magistrates in the Christchurch area will be strict in connexion with the granting of certificates of fitness to hold licences. “If a licensee has a conviction this is reported by the police when an application for a certificate of fitness is made. If a certificate of fitness is refused in this area, it is quite apparent that it will be refused in other areas,” he continued. “It is necessary to bear these facts in mind when we want licensees whose conduct merits approbation and not censure,” said the chairman. Transfers and Renewals Transfers of licences were granted as follows: Junction Hotel, Halswell, Daniel St. John Douglas to Harold Archibald Stevens; South Rakaia Hotel, Rakaia, Andrew Hugh Todd to Howard James Smith. Licences were issued as follows: Belfast Hotel, Belfast, William Trevor Gifford; Junction Hotel, ' Halswell, Harold Archibald Stevens; Prebbleton Hotel. Prebbleton. Peter Noel Smith; Southbridge Hotel, Southbridge, Horace William Gallagher: South Rakaia Hotel, Rakaia; Howard James Smith: Templeton Hotel, Templeton, John Walsh. Renewals of licences were granted as follows: Bluff Hotel, Coalgate, John Callaghan Pope; Canterbury Hotel, Methven. Kenneth Gordon McLaughlin; Chertsey Hotel. Chertsey, Francis William Palmer; Commercial Hotel, Kirwee, Douglas Victor Scott; Darfield Hotel, Darfield, Basil Parsons; Dunsandel Hotel, Dunsandel. Alexander Allan Macpherson; Ellesmere Arms, Tai Tapu, Humphrey John Moynihan; Hororata Hotel, Hororata, Keven Patrick O’Sullivan; Leeston Hotel, Leeston, Leonard Kendall O’Neill; Lincoln Hotel, Lincoln. Andrew Dick Duncan; Methven Hotel, Methven, Ronald Maxwell May; Phoenix Hotel. Papanui, Robert William Henry Claude Smith; Railway Hotel, Doyleston, Roy William Jackman; Railway Hotel. Rakaia, Ronald William Griffith,. Rolleston Hotel, Rolleston; Lewis Henry Nicolle; Royal Hotel, Springfield. Myra Ellen Carver: Sheffield Hotel, Sheffield, Marwood William John Palmer; Springston Hotel. Springston, George Arthur Wright; Yaldhurst Hotel, Yaldhurst, George Hector Humphries. The following accommodation licences were renewed: Glacier Hotel, Bealey, Duncan Belgrave Montague Wallis; West Melton Hotel, West Melton, George Walter Jack.