LICENSING MEETINGS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 7385, 7 June 1895, Page 3

LICENSING MEETINGS.

{PEB PEHSB ASSOCIATION.] Wellington, This day. The business at tho annual meeting of the City Licensing Committee was transacted in eighteen minutes. All renewals and transfers were granted wi'hout opposition, although in two cases the licensees were cautioned for- permitting Sunday trading and drinking after JUours. All lioenses were fixed at eleven o'clock, and permission was given to extinguish the street lights at tbat hour, ihe Committee expressed the opinion that wuh one or two exceptions the houses had been fairly well conducted, and in some instances particularly well, and the Committee was sttisfied that the police were doing their duly. Timaeu, Thia day. All licences were granted and au extension granted to 11 p.m. The fiev. W. Gillies, Pr ohibitionist member of tho Committee, objected to tho renewal of tho licenses to houses having private bars, and argued that only public bars as defined by the Act were legal. He also opposed the extension hours, but was defeated by 5 to 2 on both points.

Nelson, 'jbis day. Ail licenses were renewed yoiterdiy, with the exception of an application for the transfer of tho Exchange Hotel to Samuel Hansen, vijiuh was deferred till the 4th of July, to whiuh data the Committee adjourned. The objeotion was that undesirable characters frequent the house.