"Dejecting And Decadent" Hotels

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30367, 17 February 1964, Page 10

"Dejecting And Decadent" Hotels

(New Zealand Association) WELLINGTON, February 16. on . e le 12 hotels in the Shannon to Paekakariki area which were the subject Of licensing reviews fay the Licensing Control Compassion earlier this month will have a hotel premises licence issued forthwith.

Of the others, nine will be required to carry out alterations and jnwrovements, and decisions on two provisional licences were deferred. The commission, which composes Mr S. T. Barnett (Chairman),* Major-General Sif William Gentry and Mr N. Butcher, has released its findings. Only the Paraparaumu Hotel, built in 1955, will have a licence issued.

Decisions were deterred on toe of the two Shan--52", hotels, toe Chib and the Albion. reviewed are the twb hotels in Shannon,” toe commission said. The Club Hotel needed "™aipr surgery,” and the owner intended to spend £27,000 on the premises. A dpqision pn the licence was deferred for six months. The Albiop Hotel was owned by an elcjprly woman woman who was the subject Of a protection order given to the Publfc Trustee by the Supreme Court. There were no' Capital funds in the estate for " the necessary improvements. ' ‘ . “We leave it to the Public Trustee* apd th? Manawgtu Licensing Committee to do the best they cap till the statutory allowed has elapsed, unless some turn of events makes it possible to bring the hotel up to standard/ the commission said.

avenue, suffered arm injuries when his motor-cycle and a cat collided at the corner of Tedder avenue and Marriotts road' ribduf 5.20 sta. on Saturday. Mr McKenzie was treated at the Christchurch Hospital.