LICENSING MEETINGS.

Evening Star, Issue 9153, 7 June 1893, Page 4

LICENSING MEETINGS.

At the annual meeting of the Lawrence Com ■ mitteo on Tuesday the police report was favorable to the whole of tho applicants, and seven publicans' licenses to eleven o'clock and three bottle licenses were granted. Mr M. Fraer, who is leaving the district, handed in his resignation as a member of the Licensing Committee. In so doing he remarked that he had been connected with the Licensing Bench for the last eighteen years—for some time as a nominated commissioner with Messrs Carew, lt.M., Farrer, and Dr Stewart, and as an elected commissioner since the present Act came into force — and that during tho whole of that time the reports from year to year were always favorable to the licensees in the conduct of their houses, which ho thought was satisfactory to all concerned. The resignation was accepted with regret, and a vote of thanks was passed to the chairman and clerk of the Bench respectively, and Sergeant Conn was complimented on his well-prepared report. The annual meeting of the Licensing Committee for Addington Ward, Sydenham licensing district, was held yesterday. The whole of the day was occupied in the hearing of an application for a license for the Southern Cross Hotel, one of the houses closed by the late Committee. A decision was reserved till June 19.