LICENSING COURT, CLYDE.

Dunstan Times, Issue 895, 13 June 1879, Page 2

LICENSING COURT, CLYDE.

(Thursday, June 12, 1579 (Before W. L. Simpson, Esq., R. (~, and Messrs E. Stewart, and J. U. Cambridge.) The Chairman said the Commissioners desired to make a few remarks on the licensing question generally, and it was their wish that the purport should bo conveyed by the Police to all holders (£ licenses. Complaints were being mad throughout the district, in no one particular place but very generally, upon the system holders of licenses were gradually drifting V into in the conducting of their houses. The system was that of sacrificing the legitimate hotel business for the liquor traffic only. It must be understood that the time has arrived when the travelling public will not submit to this sort of thing ; and it mint

1>« further understood that the i Licensing Bench—the same question, benciticed, had been touched upon by the Duned in Bench—have fully made up their minds i iot to be a party to it ; and further, when it comes under its notice that any house I.’or which a license is applied for, is not in [good repair and has not comfortable accommodation, the license will bo refused. It is simply that grog shanties, into which n;lany houses are degenerating, will not bo lujsused ; and if holders of houses cannot see their way clear to keep them in good and substantial repair, and to provide the requisite and necessary accommodation, the applications will be refused. The Bench not desiring to suddenly depreciate the value of property, would this year grant all applications, but the remarks made it would be well to bear in mind, as it resolved not ( o perpetuate the system that had been si slowly but surely growing. The police in future reports should deal with the qu< stion of number of houses required. The following applications for renewals were dealt with, the report of the Police * previously being read, the wP ich as a whole was. favourable, though refer nice was made to some of the houses not being in so good a state of repair as was desirable through leaky roofs. Town of Clyde.—General and Night— John Cox, Port Phillip Hotel ; E. George, Dunstan Hotel ; T. Hawthorne, Bendigo Hotel ; J. Parks, Hartley Arms ; J. Holt, Sydney Hotel; A. Moore, Junction Hotel. Wholesale—B. Naylor. Bottle—D M’Pherson. Chatto Creek.—General—J. M‘Donald, Chatto Creek Hotel. j Tinker’s Gully.—General—J. G. Mellor, Newtown Hotel. Drvbread.—General—H. Duck, Matakanui Hotel. Ophir.— General—Pl. Gavan, G. W. M'lntosh. Buttle—G. Si nclair, J. Pitches. Ida Valley. —General—;R. Wilson. Bush J. Beattie. Nevis.—General—W. O’Connell. Bush— J. Crombie, Gum Goon 3 ong.