FIRE FACILITIES

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 133, 8 June 1942, Page 6

FIRE FACILITIES

HOTEL REQUIREMENTS

, The comment that in the- present difficult times the City Council should not be unreasonable in what it asks \vas made by Mr. J. L. Stout, S.M., presiding 'at the annual meeting of the Wellington Licensing Committee today. He was referring to what the council requires to, be done at 14 city hotels for fire facilities, and said the committee thought representatives of the council should meet the licensees and arrange for the minimum essentials to be carried out. The requirements at present involve constructional alterations of a considerable nature, in many cases the provision, of safety doors, for isolating fires. The committee, on the atlvice of the inspecting officer, has, in the past, regarded the fire facilities in the hotels as sufficient.

The matter was adjourned until the nexl quarterly meeting of the committee.

The police report on the conduct of hotels in the past year showed that in practically all cases it had been satisfactory. It would be noted, it said, that there had been 15 convictions for "selling" and four convictions for other offences against licensees, a decrease of nine on the previous year. Twelve persons other than licensees had been convicted, a decrease of 14; and 124 persons had been convicted for being on premises after hours, a decrease of 64. Some after-hours trading was still going on, but the police were doing their utmost to suppress it.