Commission Reports On Trust Hotel Proposals

Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28370, 31 August 1957, Page 14

Commission Reports On Trust Hotel Proposals

(New Zealand Press Association )

WELLINGTON. August 30. In only two cases put. of an original 28 applications, made between 1949 and 1952, for the taking of local trust polls had any progress been made, states the annual report of the Licensing Control Commission which was presented to Parliament today. Those two cases were the Mount Wellington Hotel, which is operating. and the Cheviot Hotel, where building had started. Of the original 28 applications. 24 were proceeded with and 22 proposals for public licences had been carried and one rejected, while one proposal for a wholesale licence had been carried. Of the 23 proposals carried, seven had not been proceeded with. Six applications to licensing committees had been unsuccessful, and in the remaining 10 cases provisional licences had been granted to local trusts. Apart from the two cases where some progress had been made, all the other applications had been withdrawn, struck out, or—except in Te Puke and one licence in Hutt city- -not proceeded with. “In six cases, licensing committess. in accordance with the legislation, have recently taken action to revoke the provisional -rrnHno r»f Irtral

trusts where, after a lapse of several years, no start had been made in the provision of hotels found to be necessary in the localities.” says the report. “Where this has occurred, the committees have called for fresh applications and provisional grants of licences, in some cases, have been made to private interests. “These interests now have certain hotels either under construction or at the planning stage.”