LICENSING COMMITTEE MEETINGS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3713, 9 June 1883, Page 3

LICENSING COMMITTEE MEETINGS.

Christchurch, This day

At the Sydenham licensing meeting clergymen of all denominations and the "women of Sydenham" made vigorous efforts to prevent the granting of now licenses, but of nine applications three were granted, the granting in each case being received with hisses aud applause. The committee sat in tho Oddfellows' Hall, which was crowded. The proceedings were continued from noon yesterday till 7o'clock in the evening. One man insinuated that a member of the committee was interested in one of the houses. Dr Prankish repudiated the insinuation, and denounced it in warm terms as an insult to the committee.

Oamaru, This clay,

The Licensing Committees have altered the time of closing for all public-houses in the borough from 12 to 11 o'clock. A petition was lodged to make the hour 10 o'clock, but being informal was not considered.

AVestport, This day

The Licensing Committee made all licenses 11 o'clock; hitherto they wero all 12 o'clock licenses.

Greymouth, This day.

The Licensing Committee for this district held their annual meeting yesterday. The principal hotels, such as those with superior accommodation and good stabling, or of a commercial character, were granted midnight licenses, but all the others were only 11 o'clock licenses. The police strongly reoommended all the hotels should be made to close at 11 o'clock. They also represented to the Committee that granting bottle licenses was unfair to the publicans, who went to great expense to provide accommodation for the public ; but all the bottle licenses applied for were granted.