QUARTERLY LICENSING MEETING.

Evening Post, Volume XVI, Issue 209, 3 September 1878, Page 2

QUARTERLY LICENSING MEETING.

The quarterly licensing meeting was held to*day before Mr. Mansford, 8.W., and .Messrs. Holdsworth, Moore, and Kebbell. «t KarOTi " aPpHe f ° r * llCense fOT a hotel f ' In 9p r Ctor 800 sttiJ. that there wns formerly a licensed house, at the spot in question, but it had been found unnecessary. Sinco the hoUse had been closed, there hid been much less drunkenness in thtr neighborhood. The Court refused the application. Mr. Moody applied ibr a license to the Kllblriife Hotel.' Mr. Moorhouse, who appeared for the applicant, said that .the! 'house .was veky much in the neighborhood. In one direction .there was no: licensed house, within a,di»tance | of a mile, and in another there" was none within a distance of four miles. The hotel was situated in Evans' Bay, a very flourishing i Qis» trict, and nil but one person resident in the district had signed a petition in favor of the licnnss being granted. Mr. Moody, tbe applicant, stid the house contained on the ground-floor four bedrooms, ,a kitchen, . bar, dining-room :, and upstairs twelve bedrooms, feth-r^,jßo!l ( i Mr. White, .estate agent; Mr. Schawbe, architect; and Mr. Bridges, builder, gave evidence as to .the requirements of the neighbourhood and' the commtfdiousness 1 of the house. Inspector -Atobison, in r reply to the Bench, said that the hou& was nqt finished and would not be' for sbme'tfme. 1 v Moreover, a licensed house was nbt required in'thenetehbpurhood. Mr. Madsfbrd said thfr 1 appllcAtlonTwould be refused. ' • » Mr. Moorhouse.— l should like to show that what has been sthtod by tbe Inspector is not correct. Mr. HoldiWofth.— That has not influenced our decision.; f. )i '".,,¦' Only one application for. a transfer of a license was opposed-^thftirofihe fcarori Hotel, Thorndon, lrom the 1 Sher/ftto Jane Hindge, to which opposition was offered by the late tenant. . Thomas Carter. Mr, F. M. QMvier appoared for the transferee. ' Mif/iaahsVord said that the objection urged by Mr. Carter could not by any possibility be entertained by the Court, and they camo wit* 'Very^bati^gTaee from a person who formerly held thb'lteen<e. The transfer was then granted; ¦¦<*¦' w In addition to the list given ln>btir issue of yesterday, the following transfers*' were also granted:— Occidental Hotel, Mr. J. E. Coker to Mr. J. Inglis ; Metropolitan Hotel, Mr. J. J. Beatty to Mr. G. J. Squires: Porirua Hotel, Mr. J. M'Grath to Mr. J . Hood ; Panatahanui Hotel, Henry Hillon to Charles Pryko. , The meeting was 'addjourhed for fourteen days. In the course of tho proceeding, TJtr. Mansford said that in future be should, inaccordance with the.24th section, Squire the transferee to glye the sd»rie rifftice'Df an application for a transfer -asof ad application for ai new license, ... ' W '** :¦• ' ' '.' ). ¦ *-. • ''ji