WELLINGTON HOTELS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 58, 3 December 1918, Page 3

WELLINGTON HOTELS

MEETING OF EICE-N'SING COMMITTEE. The quarterly meeting of the licensing Committee was held .yesterday. On the Bench were Mr. AV. G. Kiudell,' S.M. (chairman), Messrs. G. ''jller, Uγ J. Helytr, G.. E. Petherick, J. Smith, and AV. Hildreth. The police report stated that all hotels in the Wellington district had been well conducted during the njist quarter, with the exception ot the Caledonian Hotei, the conduct of which was declared to be unsatisfactory. A considerable amount of drunkenness had been noticed in nnd about the premises. An unfavourable .report in regard to this hotel was mndo last quarter, and the licensee was warned by the committee, but the warning had not proved effective.- The licensee was convicted and fined for sellin" liquor after hours on May 17 last, and there were two further charges of broaches of the Licensing Act pending, but owing to the epidemic the charges could not be heard before the date of the meeting. In addition, the report stated that the general conduct of tho hotel was bad. As leportod ,at the last meeting of the committee a drunken fracas had occurred in August last between the military and licensee's son and others. . •

The chairman said that the report was altogether satisfactory with the exception of the references to the Caledonian Hotel.- Arrangeinents, liowever, had since'been made for the transfer of the license to another person, and an all round improvement in conditions would no doubt result.

i" ?" i?" M ' Grat , n sai <> th at the licensoe had had a gooil record until recently, when her health broke down which was the cause of the unsatisfactory conditions at the hotel. .

The chairman then referred briefly to the late Mr. Eobert Fletcher, who lvns a member of the committee for sonm years, and whose place has been taken by Mr. Hildreth. The chairman also mentioned the fact that the licensees of the Shamrock, Now Commercial, and Clyde Quay Hotels had died from tho effects of complications following upon influenza.

The following transfers were granted-— Brunswick Hotel, Thomas Kingston to G. H. Tiller; Cricketers' Arms Hotel, J. \- Foley to E. J. Stuart; Occidental Hotel J,. C. Lamb to Thomas Kingston; and Grand Hotel, C. 0. Schauer to J. A. ,-Dunciin. •,

At a meeting of the joint committee of the Red Gross Society and the Ordor of St. John held in Auckland last week a motion was passed expressing high appreciation of the splendid services rendered by the late -Miss Firth (whose death took place as the result of illness contracted at Narrow Neck Camp whilst nursing), both as a'member cf the joint committeo and as a worker for all patriotic causes during the war, and at the ;snme time recording the deep sense of loss sustained by the Order cf St. John, the joint committee, and the community generally by her death. In moving the resolution, Mr. Gunson said Miss Firth gave her life in the service of the Empire, 'and by her , unselfish nnd devoted labour had proved herself a worthy representativo of the', noble and ancient Order, whose mottoes vtzre, "Pro fide, pro utilitate hominum."

Miss Ina Geraldine Leech died at Hastings from the epidemic. Nurse Leech went from Kangiora, Canterbury, to Hastings, a.ntl, being a nurse, was among the first to offer her services at the hospital when the epidemic broke out, with the result that her own life was sacrificed. ■

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