FIRST TAVERN LICENCE GIVEN

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31318, 14 March 1967, Page 1

FIRST TAVERN LICENCE GIVEN

The first tavern licence in the Canterbury Licensing Committee’s area has been issued to the Woolston Hotel, Ferry road, which will now be known as the Woolston Tavern. The hotel is owned by Ballins Industries, Ltd. The manager of the hotel is Mr G. Rew.

The Licensing Control Commission had issued a certificate authorising the tavern licence under section 315 of the Sale of Liquor Act, 1962. The Commission fixed the fee for the initial tavern keeper’s licence for the period to June 30, 1967, at £460. The sum of £5O from this fee will be paid into the

Consolidated Fund and the balance will be credited to the Licensing Rund Account administered by the commis-stop-work meeting. Under section 184 of the Sale of Liquor Act the holder of a tavern keeper’s licence is responsible at all times for providing adequate facilities for the sale, supply and consumption of liquor pursuant to bis licence and maintaining in good order all faculties, other than structural,

for the prevention of fire and for means of warning and escape in case of fire. The holder of a tavern keeper’s licence has to make a return, within one month of March 31 each year to the clerk of the licensing committee, of the gross amount paid for the purchase of all liquor sold during the year to March 31.

The Licensing Fund, which is under the control of the commission, consists of moneys paid to the commission for new liquor licences i for hotels, taverns, and tour- ' ist houses or wholesale > licences and the renewal of ' those licences. i Money in the fund avail- ■ able for investment may be t transferred to the State Ad- - vances Corporation to hold in - the hotel investment account > and used for making advances to holders of hotel or tourist premises licences or to whom any such licences have been granted and not issued, for the improvement, alteration or rebuilding of licensed premises or for the erection of new premises. Any profit from the hotel improvement account may, with the consent of the Minister of Justice be used for the following:— 1— For defraying or subsidising costs of scientific research into the use of liquor or the education of the public on the dangers of the abuse of liquor. 2 Subsidising the costs incurred in the care, treatment or rehabilitation of alcoholics. 3 Subsidising costs in carrying out a scheme for the training of hotel staffs or for promoting and increasing tourist traffic from overseas. 4 Any charitable purpose approved of by the Minister of Internal Affairs.