LICENSING COMMITTEE

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 62, 7 December 1926, Page 6

LICENSING COMMITTEE

BUSINESS AT QUARTERLY MEETING. Palmerston North, December 6. The quarterly meeting of the Palmerston Licensing Committee was held to-day, there being present Messrs J. L. Stout, S.M., W. F Durward, J. M. Johnston, A. J. Graham, C. N. Clausen, and W. R Birnie. “This is one <>( the hotels which has caused the committee a lot of trouble,” said Mr. Stout of the Post Office Hotel, when application was made bv Mr. J. Merton, on behalf of Arthur ’ Steere, for a temporary license. “Tlie building has been gutted by fire, and should be replaced in brick. It has been made clear time and again that this hotel is not to be allowed to run as at present after the expiry of the lease.” Mr. Stout said that the committee was prepared to give the licensee a few weeks in which to prepare plans for a new building in brick on the same or another site. The committee was of the opinion that if the business was to be carried on, the hotel would have to be rebuilt in brick. The licensee was granted occupancy of the present premises until January. Approval was accorded the application bv. William Joseph Wareham for the renewal of his license in regard to the Princess Hotel. The following applications for transfers of publicans’ licenses wene granted:—Masonic Hotel, Mary' Mulrooney to Frederick Henry Rennie; RailwayHotel, Ernest Mawson Earl Stevens to John Peach; Junction Hotel (Longburn) , Oswald Upton to Louis William Cross.