Hotel Dry For Most Of Day; Restaurant For Week-End

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30793, 3 July 1965, Page 1

Hotel Dry For Most Of Day; Restaurant For Week-End

The Caledonian Hotel in Christchurch was a pub with no beer available for most of yesterday because the licensee, Mr J. Coffey, had forgotten to renew his hotelkeeper’s licence. Mr Coffey realised his oversight when he read a news item in “The Press” about a dozen Dunedin licensees who had almost overlooked that Thursday was the last day for renewing licences. He immediately put his application and fee (£4O) for

a temporary licence into the Magistrate’s Court and was granted the temporary licence at 3.15 p.m. in time to be able to sell liquor to his hundreds of Friday evening regulars. The proprietor of the Malando, a licensed restaurant in the city, Mr J. W. Levy, was not so fortunate. He did not realise the licence had not been renewed until late in the afternoon. He was unable to get a temporary licence put through before the Court

closed and is not able to sell liquor until Monday at the earliest. “It is very bad luck. Friday and Saturday nights are my best nights,” Mr Levy commented. He explained that an application and fee for the transfer of restaurant licence from the previous holder to himself was lodged in the Court but had not been finally approved. Neither party had thought to apply for the renewal of the licence.