HOTEL ISOLATED

Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2450, 20 June 1931, Page 8

HOTEL ISOLATED

' by NEW HIGHWAY LAW WILL NOT ALLOW REMOVAL (Per Press Association). Gisborne, June 20. I he Public Works Department lias notified that- the Opotiki County Council will be expected to take over the new highway from Matawai via Waioeka to Opotiki, in September, When the matter was mentioned ai the Bay of Plenty licensing Committee. common.: was made that soon th© present route via Motu would no longer be used, and consequently the Motu hotel, ope of the finest on the East Goas . would i>c more useful at Matawai, nine miles nearer Gisborne than Motu, but the law restricted the removal of an hotel licenge in the country more tlifiii one mile. Tlie committee unanimously decided that i, he a recommendation for consideration by the proper authorities that the necessary amendments ho mad in the licensing to permit the removal of any ela-ss of license granted in respect of premises within tlie district without restriction as to distance. The police inspector and Magistrate spoke in support of the recommendation.