Shades Tavern granted exemption

Press, 20 September 1980, Page 6

Shades Tavern granted exemption

The Shades ■ Tavern was .yesterday granted by the Canterbury Licensing Committee an exemption from a requirement to provide a public ban • ; . The application was approved on the condition that liquor was sold in the tavern at public bar prices. Approving the application. Judge Paterson told the applicants that the committee was strongly in support of public bars:’ Generally where a licence of a public nature was granted, it-was in the public interest, that the premises should be open to the public. / The committee was prepared to? deviate from the policy only in exceptional

circumstances. The downstairs bar in Shades Arcade would be unique in Christichurch, and the committee felt the applicants had made a case for being exempted from the public bar requirement, he said,

Supporting the application, the associate director of the Shades Tavern (Mr N. G. Mattison) said the tavern entrance would be just inside the Shades Arcade. The tavern had an obligation to the other tenants in the complex to keep a high standard of behaviour.

The tavern was designed along the lines of the Cobb and Co? restaurants, although it-was in- the style of a Dickensian coffee shop.

Food and coffee would be provided as well as liquor.

Two public bars were close to the Shades Tavern site, and these were not overcrowded, he said. Mr G. T. C. Kain, a company director, said the idea behind the tavern was to foster civilised drinking habits by providing food. If the tavern had a public bar and standards of behaviour deteriorated, the whole Shades complex, which represented an investment of $5.5 million, would suffer. Licence renewals

The committee was so concerned that work ,had not been done on the King

George Hotel that it would call for the licencee to show why the licence should not be cancelled, said Judge Paterson.

The hotel had applied for a renewal of its licence. Judge Paterson said the committee was very unhappy that no maintenance had been done in the kitchen, storage area, bar and ‘ patrons’ toilets. The committee would not recommend the renewal of the hotel’s licence, and on its own motion called for the licencee to put a case at the next meeting of the committee on December 5.

Judge Paterson said, the commraee was surprised

that Shirley Lodge, which had much newer premises, had fallen into a state requiring intervention from the Health Department. However, the committee was prepared to renew its licence because the hotel had a substantial contract for modernisation.

Applications for renewal of licences were approved for the Shoreline Nite Club, Malando Restaurant, Clarendon Hotel, Aranui Motor Lodge, Cokers Hotel, New Railway Hotel, South Rakaia Hotel, Riccarton Cricket Club, Ellesmere Golf Club, and New Brighton Rugby Football Club.

The committee

an application from the Crown Tavern to change its hours to open at 10 a.m. and close at 10 p.m. The Little River Hotel was given approval to stay open until 11 p.m. on Christmas Eve and until 12.30 a.m. on New Year’s Eve.

The Shades Tavern was given approval to stay open until 11 p.m. on Christmas Eve, New Year’s Eve, and on Fridays and Saturdays. The Sheffield Hotel was also given approval to open until 11 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays. The committee approved an application from the Dominion Hotel to extend its closing for alterations until November 14.