Motunau poll on trust control

Press, Volume CXIII, Issue 33407, 13 December 1973, Page 16

Motunau poll on trust control

Residents of the bcargill-Motunau district have decided at a public meeting that a poll should be held on whether any Motunau tavern should be run by a trust.

Before this poll and another to decide whether a tavern will be built, a public meeting will be held at which representatives of the Licensing Trusts Association ana Ute Hotel Association will speak The polls will be open to •n residents of the Motunau area. Before the polls are arranged, the Licensing Control Commission will have to define the licence area. The waipara County Council has, already applied for a poll to oecide whether the tavern actually be built. i .The County Clerk (Mrt , P MacManus) said that the meeting appeared to be

•largely in favour of the; 11 tavern. : “The council will recomi mend that the licence area ■be that of the ScargillI Motunau recreation reserve; I as well as Motunau Beach,”] said Mr MacManus. >i "The council will not try l rto persuade the people whether trust or private con-; ■ 'trol is better; it has never • done this. If the people like i to elect a trust, the council; • will support their decision.”] Mr MacManus said there] > was interest shown by a per-; i son from Christchurch ini running the tavern as a pri-i •ivate venture, but that there] : seemed to be a majority ini : favour of trust control.