MOTOR SPIRITS LICENSING

Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28362, 22 August 1957, Page 18

MOTOR SPIRITS LICENSING

Decisions Reserved By Authority

Decisions were reserved on three of the applications heard by the Motor Spirits Licensing Authority in Christchurch yesterday. Two applications were granted. The Authority consists of Mr S. C. Johnston (chairman), of \ Auckland, and Mr S. Roberts, of Wellington. The Hokitika branch of the National Mortgage Association applied for a licence to sell petrol in bulk from the British Petroleum Company’s depot at Greymouth.

Mr A. C. Perry appeared for the association. Mr L. B. Crompton opposed the application for the West, Coast branch of the Retail Motor Trade Association, and decision was reserved. Two South Canterbury firms

applied for new licences. The application of City Motors, Timaru (Mr A. Hobbs), was granted subject to conditions laid down by the Authority. Decision was reserved on the application of Farm Services (St. Andrews), Ltd., for whom Mr G. S. Brockett appeared. The Authority reserved decision on Duvauchelle Service Station, Ltd’s, application for a licence to sell petrol from one pump at its premises in Woodend, and in bulk from the depot of Caltex Oil (N.Z.), Ltd., on the Main North road, at Woodend.

Mr Brockett appeared for the applicant. The application was opposed by the Woodend Garage, Ltd. (Mr A. C. Fraser), Hawkins, Ltd., and J. S. Burrows (Mr G. L. Bowron) and the Canterbury Retail Motor Trade Association (Mr Crompton). An application by A. D. Cormack Ltd., Geraldine (Mr Perry), for the deletion of a restrictive condition on the siting of his pump was granted.

Nelson College Boy For British Tour

(From Our Own Reporter} NELSON, August 21. John Clarence Hinchcliff, a prefect at Nelson College, has been selected to represent the college on a sponsored visit to Britain next year. He will travel in company with a party of 13 other senior New Zealand secondary schoolboys on a tour arranged by the Overseas League. Now in his fifth year at Nelson College, Hinchcliff has a good all-round record. He is a member of the Nelson College first fifteen to play in the inter-college Rugby tournament beginning at Nelson on Saturday. As 16 applications were originally received from Nelson College for the trip the party was extended to include a boy specifically from the college if a fund of £3OO could be raised locally. This has been done by a citizens’ committee.