WAKATIPU LICENSING COMMITTEE.

Dunstan Times, Issue 3135, 18 September 1922, Page 4

WAKATIPU LICENSING COMMITTEE.

♦._ — QUARTERLY MEETING. A quarterly meeting of the Wakatipu Licensing Committee was held in the Courthouse, Queenstown last Thursday at noon. Present: Messrs Geo. Cruickshank Esq , S M.. Win. Reid, D. F. Sutherland, Ed. Marsha and Chas. Murphy. Mr E. Sinclair, Health Inspector, Clyde, was present in connection with several applications which were adjourned from the annual meeting _ in June to allow for improvements being made in the sanitary and bathing arrangements in certain licensed houses. Sergt McGlone, Clvde was also present. The Health Inspector or Police having reported that the improvements required had been effected or were in immediate prospect, the renewals of licenses were, granted in respect of the following adjourned application. PUBLICAN'S LICENSES. , Wm. J. Churstain, Ferry Hotel* Lower Shotover; J. S. Collins' Mountaineer Hotel, Queenstown; Margaret GaWin, Shingle Creek Hotel t Shingle Creek; Henry Drake, Jockey Club Hotel, Omakau. ACCOMMODATION LICENSESGertrude Sarah Ross, Chatto Creek Hotel, Chatto Creek; Thomas James Truesdale, Newtown Hotel, Matakanui; Win. Francis Dundass, Railway Hotel, Ida Valley; Wm. James Bevis, Moa Creek Hotel, Moa Creek. TRANSFERS. Applications to transfer were granted the following:—John Henry Tracey, Patearoa Hotel, Patearoa, to Peter Cuttanach McLeod; Samuel James Ballantyne Vulcan Hotel, St. Bathans, to Herbert Patrick. OTHER APPLICATIONS. In respect of the application of Win* Tisdall, Welcome Home Hotel. Lowburn Ferry, which was adjourned from the annual meeting to March next, owing to the house being burned down on nth May, the Committee indicated that a further permit to carry on would be granted when the present permit ran out on 9th November. The Health Inspector reported that nothing had been done in regard to the drainage from the Victoria Hotel, Cromwell. The septic tank was still not satisfactory, and nothing had been done to carry the drainage by pipes to the river. The Committee retired to discuss the position, and on returning, the Chairman announced that the Committee had decided that if the required improvement had not been effected by 5111 October next there was every hkihood that the application for a license would be refused. Wakatipu -Mail