27 APPLICATIONS FOR WINE SHOPS

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32143, 12 November 1969, Page 1

27 APPLICATIONS FOR WINE SHOPS

Twenty-seven applications for four new wine resellers’ licences have been made to the Canterbury Licensing Committee.

The new-wine shops will be in Fendalton (premises within a quarter-mile radius of the Fendalton and Clyde Roads intersection), Linwood (within a quarter-mile radius of the Linwood Avenue and

Cashel Street intersection), Upper Riccarton (within a mite radius of Church Corner). and Shirley (within a half-mile radius of the Shirley and New Brighton Roads intersection). The committee will hear the applications, and objections, at a public sitting, probably beginning on December 15. The Licensing Control Commission decided to grant the four new licences on August 15, and this will bring the number of wine-reselling licences in Christchurch to 16. At a public hearing on

March 12, Mr R. W. Jenkins, the inspector of licensed premises, recommended that the commission grant nine new licences. The recommendation was opposed by the Canterbury Hotel Association, Canterbury Wholesale Wine and Spirit Merchants’ Association. and others. The commission, in its reserved decision, said that it favoured the new licences being given to premises suitable for selling wines rather than premises in which other commodities were sold. The committee rejected the recommendations that new wine shops should be authorised in the city centre, Hornby, Lincoln Road, at the junction of Pages and Breezes Roads, and Opawa Road. Seven applicants have advertised that they intend to apply for a licence to run a wine shop in Shirley. One

of the applicants is a T.A.B. agent, one a wine selling company with five wine shops in Christchurch, and at ■ least two are established wine and spirits wholesalers. The T.A.B. agent and three companies have applied for the licence in Upper RiccartOn. Four applications have been made for the Fendalton licence by three companies established in wine selling and a company which will establish a shopping centre in Memorial Avenue. Two grocery firms have applied for premises near the intersection of Clyde and Ham Roads, but it appears that the sites would be more than a quarter of a mile from the Fendalton-Clyde Roads intersection. Only one application, on behalf of a wine and spirits company, has been advertised for the Linwood area licence.