PUBLICANS' LICENCES

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 129, 2 June 1936, Page 6

PUBLICANS' LICENCES

WELLINGTON HOTELS

APPLICATIONS GRANTED

The following applications were granted at the annual meeting of the Wellington Licensing Committee, held in the Magistrate's Court yesterday:—

For the Permanent Transfer of a Licence. —James Elleray to Michael Howard Carroll, Princess Hotel; Robert Irvine to Clement Stephen Cook, White Swan Hotel; Richard Timmins to Matthew Albert Carr, Empire Hotel.

For the Issue of a Publican's Licence. —Matthew Howard Carroll, Princess Hotel, Molesworth Street; Albert Wilfred Harris, Pier Hotel, Grey Street; Luke James Spellman, Masonic Hotel, Cuba Street; Timothy Dominic Kelliher, Clarendon Hotel, Courtenay Place and Taranaki Street; William George Pope, Duke of Edinburgh Hotel, Willis Street; Matthew Albert Carr, Empire Hotel, Willis Street; Clement Stephen Cook, White Swan Hotel, Cuba Street; Thomas Wolfe, Imperial Hotel, Cuba Street. For the Renewal of a Publican's Licence.—James Dealy, Railway Hotel, Thorndon Quay; William O'Grady, Thistle Inn Hotel, Mulgrave Street; Robert Theodore Mead Edmonds, Hotel Cecil, Lambton Quay; Arthur George Rayward; Wellington Hotel, Molesworth Street; Bridget Ryan, Metropolitan Hotel, Molesworth Street; Johi\ Douglas McKechnie, Shamrock Hotel, Molesworth Street; John Owen Clay, Western Park Hotel, Tinakori Road; Albert Fry Falconer, New Occidental Hotel, Lambton Quay; Mary Hendry. Royal Hotel, Lambton Quay; Ernest Timothy Smith, National Hotel, Lambton Quay; Margaret Dwyer, Midland Hotel, Lambton Quay; William McLennan, Gresham Hotel, Lambton Quay; Oscar Clarence Cox, New Commercial Hotel, Lambton Quay; Kenneth Kennedy, Post Office Hotel, Grey Street; William Noad, Barrett's Hotel, Lambton Quay; Elizabeth Quinn, Central Hotel, Lambton Quay; Margaret Mary Dwyer, Cambridge Hotel, Cambridge Terrace; Ralph Stewart, City Hotel, Oriental Parade; Joseph Quinn, Clyde Quay Hotel, Oriental Parade; Robert McMullian, Foresters" Arms Hotel. Ghuznee Street; Levi Smith, Terminus Hotel, Courtenay Place; John Archibald Robertson, Albion Hotel, Courtenay Place; Sydney McDonald, Gilmer's Royal Oak Hotel, Manners and Cuba Streets; Ernest Thomas Home, Alhambra Hotel, Cuba Street; Thomas Malachi Brennan, Te Aro Hotel, Willis Street; Stanislaus John Whiteford, Hotel Regent, Manners Street; Arthur Blarney Duff, Britannia Hotel, Willis Street; Samuel Dunn, Carlton Hotel, Willis Street; George Henry Bassant, Hotel St. George, Willis Street; Thomas Coltman, Grand Hotel, Willis Street; Robert Berryman, Brunswick Hotel, Willis Street; Nora Ryan, Panama Hotel, Vivian and Taranaki Streets; Denis Cremins, Dominion Hotel, Tory Street;

Walter Archibald Bell, Cricketers Arms Hotel, Tory Street: James <>Hanlon, Victoria Hotel, Abel Smith Street; Vincent Boland, Royal Tiger Hotel, Taranaki Street; John Scnven, Prince of Wales Hotel, Tory Street; Frederick William Young, Caledonian Hotel, Rugby Street and ■ Adelaide Road: Charles John McParland. Tramway Hotel, Adelaide Road. ~ , , For the Renewal of a Wholesale Licence.—The Tui Bottling Co., Ltd., Wakefield Street; Levin and Co., Ltd., Customhouse Quay; Reginald Collins, Ltd., Customhouse Quay and Ballance Street; Public Trustee as executor m estate of T. G. Macarthy, deceased, Tory Street; Laery, Beveridge, and Co., Ltd., 1 Allen Street; H. W. Moss, Ltd., 6 Ballance Street; E. T. Taylor and Co., Ltd., 71 Courtenay Place; T. and W. Young, 77-85. Customhouse Quay; Burns, Philp, and Co., Ltd., 69-75 Molesworth Street; William David Dobson, 95 Courtenay Place; Ellis and Manton, Ltd., Bond Street; William Leslie McIlwraith; Herbert William Gresson; Philips and Pike,. Ltd., 93-107 Featherston Street; Walter Edward Reid. 18-29 Harris Street; Wairarapa Farmers' Cooperative Association, Ltd., 176-17$ Lambton Quay;. Murray, Roberts, and Co., Ltd., 135-137 Featherstoh Street; Hardwicke and Robertson,. Ltd.,. 188 Wakefield Street; Johnston and .Co., Ltd., 166 Featherston Street; Gollin and Co., Proprietary, Ltd., Post Offica Square. .: . Applications by . the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand, Ltd., for packet licences in respect of tha Tamahine, Rangatira, and Marama were also granted.

THE CENTRAL HOTEL. After conferring with the other mem. bers of the committee, the chairman (Mr. E. D. Mosley, S.M.), said that if the circumstances - had been just a little different the committee would have felt justified in refusing Elizabeth Quinn a renewal of her licence for the Central Hotel. The record of this hotel, he added, was. among the worst placed before the committee. There had been convictions against the licensee, the barmen, and a number of persons had been found on tha premises after hours. * Mr. J. A. Scott said that the trouble had been due largely to the fact that the licensee had suffered rather severely during the past twelve months from ill health, and had«had to leave tha conduct of the hotel a good deal in. the hands of servants. The licensee, however, had given the assurance that a new and proper system would be adopted and that she herself would retain all access to the liquor portions of the house during closing hours. Tha hotel was not likely to be in exist ence very much longer:

Associated with Mr. Mosley on' the Bench were Messrs. R. Darroch, W. I. Clark, A. Longmore, W. H. Denton, and F. P. Walsh.

Inspector G. B. Edwards appeared for the Police Department,' and the Fire Brigade was represented by the deputy superintendent, Mr. J. J. Creeke.

At the conclusion of the sitting; which occupied the whole of the afternoon, Mr. Mosley thanked tha police and Fire Brigade for their de* tailed work and reports to the cc-Ok mittee.