LICENSING MEETINGS

Evening Star, Issue 8530, 1 June 1891, Page 2

LICENSING MEETINGS

MAORI HILL LICENSING COMMITTEE. The annual meeting of the Maori Hill North Committee was held in the Wesleyan Sunday Schoolroom, Woodhaugh, at noon; present -Messrs S. Lawson (chairman), R Long, R. Macdonald, A, Steven, and A. Thomson. Terence Dunne applied for a renewal of the publican's license of the Woodhaugh Hotel.

The police report was to the effect that the house was oonduoted in a satisfactory manner, and that the oharaoter of the persona frequenting it was good. There were no objections. Inspector Hlokson wrote: " I beg to add, for the information of the Committee, the following statistics in connection with the district:—The population is 1,400, and there is only one licensed house to that population. Drunkenness, lam pleased to say, appears to be unknown there, no arrests for that offenoe having been made during the past year. Mr Maodonald laid there might have been no arrests for drunkenness, but there had been drunkenness all the same. Constable Burnett stated that he reported only what he actually saw; he oould not report what was told to him. In answer to Mr Long, Constable Burnett laid he agreed that the doon and windows appeared in want of a coat of paint. Mr Maodonald referred to the oase of an acoident, whereby a man lost his life, which occurred near the hotel.

Constable Burnett aaid that had nothing to do with the hotel. It was not for the police to say anything about that. The Chairman aaid the Committee thought the police should prevent horses and drays from standing at the hotel for an unreasonable time. The matter of Sunday trading and selling liquor to ohildren should also be attended to, and the provisions of the Act bearing thereon should be oarried out.

Constable Burnett replied that if a ohild went to the hotel with a " billy " and asked for liquor, the hotelkeeper oould not refuse to supply it. The other matters mentioned by the chairman be would 'certainly attend to. k '

Mr Maodonald moved that the renewal of the present lieense be granted for twelve months, but that the ltoensee be given to understand that, the Committee would not grant any further application, as the house was not required in the neighborhood. Mr Long aeoonded the motion, which was oarried unanimously. Mr Panne said that considering the Committee did not go in on the Prohibition ticket, and as he had two years of his lease to ran, it was rafter hard on him to take away his license. If the Committee had left the refusal of the lioense an open question he might have sold, but now be would be uaable to do so, and would thereby lose heavily, as no one would take the place off his hands. The Chairman said the Committee could not alter their decision. Mr Dunne firmly believed that the ratepayers elected the Committee believing them to be in favor of toe hotel, Mr Maedonald: It is the universal opinion of the residents that the house is not required. A vote of thanks to the chairman con* eluded the proceedings. AUCKLAND. The Auokland North Licensing Committee to-day grafted renewals to a large number of hotels, The chairman expressed surprise at the complaints made regarding Sunday trading and trading after hoars, and stated that it was the Committee'* intention ftp assist the police to put down both, also to adhere to ten o'clock closing.