CONDUCT OF HOTELS

Evening Star, Issue 20655, 1 December 1930, Page 13

CONDUCT OF HOTELS

ADVERSE REPORT BY POLICE POINTED WARNING TO LICENSEES . “ The police report on the conduct of hotels shows that an undue proportion of them are described as only fairly well conducted, and a regrettable feature is that this includes several of our leading hotels, with regard to which certainly a much better report is to be expected.” Before the Dunedin Licensing Com-, mittee dealt with applications at its quarterly meeting to-day the Chairman (Mr J. H. Bartholomew, S.M.) drew the pointed attention of licensees to the need for stricter conduct and observance of the laws. With Mr Bartholomew were the following members of the committee:— Messrs D. Larnach. V. Jacobs, J. Mitchell, and F. W. Knight. Mr Bartholoniew said the committee had to call attention to the unsatisfactory position disclosed by the police report. It ttas regrettable that a great deal of the report was of an unsatisfactory nature. A number of convictions of hotel licensees and also of persons being found unlawfully on premises after hours had been made,. and the police report indicated that,, from the number of convictions, _ some of the licensees were not devoting the supervision to their premises that they should in relation to after-hours trading. The committee * desired to call pointed attention to the unsatisfactory nature of the police report, and to draw the attention of licensees to the need for stricter observance of the law.* _ _ Transfers of‘licenses were granted in respect to the Shiel Hill Hotel, from Alexander Ferguson (Mr Ferens) to Arthur Tilbury, and the Empire Hotel from Joseph Carter (Mr Neill) to Albert Ernest O’Malley. Albert Burrell (Mr Lang) applied for leave to carry on the license in the name of his father (deceased) m respect to the Oval Hotel. The Chairman said the police report on the application was adverse. The applicant was only twenty-three years of age. Mr Lang- said the leave asked for was till probate of the will was granted. In the ordinary course of events probate would bo granted to-morrow. _ Leave was granted to carry on the license till probate was granted, but for no longer than fourteen days.