HOTEL LICENSES

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 217, 11 June 1935, Page 13

HOTEL LICENSES

Committee Holds Annual Meeting POLICE OPPOSITION The Wellington Licensing Committee, comprising Mr. E. D. Mosley, S.M. (chairman), Mr. W. I. Clark, Mr. R. 11. Darrocli, Mr. W. 11. Denton, Mr. A. Longiuore and Mr. G. J. Petherick, held its annual meeting yesterday at the Magistrate’s Court for the hearing of applications for licenses. All the applications made succeeded except one, which was adjourned for further consideration. Acting for the police, Inspector G. B. Edwards opposed the renewal of Janies O'HanlonW license for the Victoria Hotel, stating that he had been twice convicted within six months, and again on a further occasion since. Mr. G. G. G. Watson appeared for the licensee. “I am strongly of the opinion that the Licensing Committee cannot act under section 253 and 10S of the Act,” said Mr. Mosley. “As chairman of fhe committee, I should be very loath to deprive the licensee of his license for three convictions without other evidence of improper conduct of his house. “The house is well conducted, and clean,” conceded Inspector Edwards. The renewal of O’Hanlon’s license was granted. Objection was also voiced by tho police against the renewal of Samuel Dunn’s license for the Carlton Hotel, under sections 92 and 104 of the Act; the licensee was stated to have been three times convicted for breaches of the Licensing Act, uot including a conviction regarding the labelling of bottles. Inspector Edwards said that apart from out of hours trading he had no fault to find with the conduct of the hotel. Mr. H. F. O’Leary appeared for the licensee. The renewal was granted. With regard to the application for the renewal of his license by Thomas Malachi Brennan, of the Te Aro Hotel, It was pointed out that the licensee had been convicted and fined for breach of the Act, notwithstanding that two years ago the Licensing Committee bad held over the granting of his license. Brennan was represented by Mr. J. A. Scott. The application was adjourned.

New licenses were granted to Ernest Timothy Smith, of the National Hotel; Ernest Thomas Horne, of the Alhambra Hotel; Frederick William Young, of the Caledonian Hotel; Robert Theodore Mead Edmonds, of the Hotel Cecil; Richard Timmins, of the Empire Hotel: Denis Gremins, of the Dominion Hotel ; William George Pope, of the Imperial Hotel; Oscar Clarence Cox, of the New Commercial Hotel; John Douglas McKechnie, of the Shamrock Hotel; William Noad, of Barrett’s Hotel; Joseph John Frederick Selway, of the Pier Hotel; Sydney McDonald, of Gilmers Royal Oak Hotel; Stanislaus John Whiteford, of the Regent Hotel.

Renewals of publicans’ licenses were granted in the cases of Robert McMullian, of the Foresters’ Arms; Albert Fry Falconar, of the New Occidental Hotel; Robert Berryman, of the Brunswick Hotel Levi Smith, of the Terminus Hotel; William Archibald Bell, of the Cricketers’ Arms; Margaret Catherine Dwyer, of the Midland Hotel; Leslie Webster Lambess, of the Masonic Hotel; William O’Grady, of the Thistle Inn; Vincent Boland, of the Royal Tiger Hotel; John Owen Clay, of the Western Park Hotel; Arthur George Rayward, of the Wellington Hotel; Albert Wilfred Harris, of the Clarendon Hotel; Mary Hendry, of the Royal Hotel; W. McLennan, of the Gresham Hotel; Thomas Coltman, of the Grand Hotel; Ralph Stewart, of the City Hotel; James Dealy, of the Railwny Hotel; Robert Irvine, of the White Swan Hotel; Kenneth Kennedy, of the Post Office Hotel; George Henry BasMint, of the Hotel St. George; Margaret Mary Dwyer, of the Cambridge Hotel; Sidney John Reid, of the Duke of Edinburgh Hotel; John Scriven, of the Prince of Wales Hotel; James Archibald Robertson, of the Albion Hotel; Charles’John McFarland, of tho Tramway Hotel; James Elleray, of the Princess Hotel; Joseph Quinn, of the Clyde Quay, Hotel; Elizabeth Quinn, of the Central Hotel; Norah Ryan, of the Panama Hotel; Bridget Ryan, of the Metropolitan Hotel; and Arthur Blarney Duff, of the Britannia Hotel.

Transfers of licenses were granted in respect to the following hotels and their licensees: National Hotel, HildaMaureen Quinn to Ernest Timothy Smith; Caledonian Hotel, Timothy Dominie Kelliher to Frederick William Young; Gilmer’s Royal Oak, Douglas George McCaul to Sydney McDonald ; Regent Hotel, Alfred Lulliam to Stanislaus James Whiteford. Wholesale licenses were granted to the following: Wail’arapa Farmers’ Cooperative Association, Limited, Burns, Philp and Company, Limited, Penfold’s Wines, Limited, Reginald Collins, Limited. Laery, Beveridge and Company, Limited, the Public Trustee as executor of estate of the late T. G. Macarthv, Walter Edward Reid, T. and W. Young, E. T. Taylor and Company, Limited, Ellis and Manton. Limited, Preston and Company, Limited, Collin and Company Proprietary, Limited, Tui Bottling Company, Limited, Levin and Company, Limited, Hardwicke and Robertson, Limited, Murray, Roberts and Company, Limited, William David Dobson. 11. W. Moss, Limited, William Leslie Mcllruith.

Packet licenses wore granted to the Union Steam Ship Company for the steamers Rangatira and Tamahine.