HUTT LICENSING COMMITTEE.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 914, 6 September 1910, Page 3

HUTT LICENSING COMMITTEE.

.TRANSFERSGRANTED. . • : .The' Hutt Licensing -Committee held a brief, sitting in the Court-house at Lower ; Hutt yesterday. Mr. vW:- R.": Haselden : presided, and with him on the Bench were' Messrs.'''H. Ryder.'and T.- Gudby. ,''; Ah application' to transfer -tho licenso ' of tho Bellevue! Hotel'from B. J.'Anstis ' to'.-T.; Kingston was' granted '.without'com- j nient.-. Mr. Ward .'appeared', for the ap- 'i 'plic'aht."''.'.v.! ' ','■'■ ■■;■'■'."":'" '", : :V''' "■' i'l On -behalf ..of .Mrs.; T. E. Bryan, ;Mi • | Young applied for a' transfer * of "licejisr-. | in respeot of- the-.Taita Hotel irom ■'.w.; Brphnigan.' -.'ln^a-icase. previously:.heard;; on the i same;' day... in ...the' Magis.tr.ituY! Court, 'tho vapplicant-was charged-with', keeping her. premises open'for'the sale of liquor during prohibited hours, to wit, on Sunday; July ■31:.; It.', was alleged' that on this... date .three men, .named; Johnson, Cobley, and Allsbpi \ were supplied with: liquor at, the Taita' Hotel. One . of k ,tlitV ■ men, ..Allsbpi :had slept' in: the 'hotel im the previous 'nights' 'The explanation tendered was to.,the effect (that..-the bar' was riot. opened,:.and.that, the "hostess .saw ho harm -in'-giving-a drink to,.reSpcctabie young men' 1 who-''had. come -to••tho -hotel for,;lunch. .The liquor was taken from' a' stbre-foom. Moreover it .was not', Sold., In. the. Magistrate's Court Mr., Haselden' reserved,' his decision,,'and, .to ; :his. col-' leagues bh.the.Licensing JJench, he stated; that, if he decided to. cqnviut, he'would not ordervth'e. license', to ■ -' be 'endorsed;. The transfer application was therefore' granted. , . ~-.■'•;' ; .: