GREY LICENSING BENCH.

Greymouth Evening Star, 7 June 1911, Page 5

GREY LICENSING BENCH.

ANNUAL* MEETING

The annual meeting of the Grey Licensing Committee-was held at the Courthouse at noon to-day, when the following members were present, viz.-—Messrs A." Crooke (Chairman), Messrs W; Irving, J. Flynn, H. D. James, F. H. Kilgour and H. J. Bignell. TRANSFERS. The following transfers were granted: Richard Dunphy to Edward Michael Powley, of the Gladstone Hotel, Reefton. Samuel Jeffery Veale to Albert Wright of the Merrijigs’ Accommodation House. Honoria Priest to Alexander Gamble of the Progress Hotel, Reefton. John Monaghan to Elizabeth Mary Davey, of the Imperial Hotel, Greymonth. , Michael Edward Powley to William Cain; of the Union Hotel, Wallsend. NEW APPLICATIONS FOR OLD / HOTELS. The following were granted:— Maurice James Fitzgerald, the Suburban, Greymouth. Arthur Behan, the Trafalgar, Greymonth. , . Jos. Edwd. Brown, the Australasian, Greymouth. Robert Russell, Park, Greymouth. John Joseph O’Brien, Duke of Earnburgh, Greymouth. Patrick Phelan, Golden Eagle, Greymonth, • . ■ ■ , 'Mary Hannan, Recreation, Greymouth. Charles Bun-ell, Gilmer, Greymouth. William Flynn, Brian Bom, Graymouth. „ , . Frank Griffon, Albion, Greymouth. John Gieseking, Revington’s, Greymouth. David Hyndman, Dnnollie, Dunolhe. Alexander Henderson Lennie, Club, Greymouth. ' . Robert Pollock. Ship Inn, Greymouth. James Smith Vial, Royal, Greymouth. Lewis Sweet, Criterion, Greymouth. Jeremiah McCarthy, Commercial, Greymouth. _ . Patrick Fallon, Cosmopolitan, Dobson. William Fitzpatrick, Albion, Wallsend. Michael Hallinan, Terminus, BrunnerJames Beirne, Empire, Greymouth. Geo. Stephen Mercer, Junction, Stillwater. Mark Stevens, Club, Blackball. James Irvine, Dominion, Blackball. James Weir, Junction. Roa. Thomas Tracoy Ivifiisella, Blackball) Blackball. , William Albert Stapleton, Stevenson a, Reefton. Ellen Costello, Railway, Reefton. James Scarlett, Emigre, Reel ton. Thomas McSweeney, Buck’s Head,Eeeiton. John Wilson, Miners , Reefton. Daniel Enright, City, Reefton. Bridget Mary Bourke, Bourke’s, ReetFra'ncis Bertram Stallard, Dawson s, Reefton. Julia Osborne, Globe, Reefton. Monica McKittrick, Southern Cross, Reefton. Mary Enright, Melbourne, Reefton. Sidney Cutler. Oriental, Greymouth. Ebza Mary Davey, Imperial, Greymonth. ... Walter Cosgrove (as executor of will of Eliza Moore, deceased), Empire, Wallsend. William Cain, Union, Wallsend. Thomas Fox, Buck’s Head, Taylorville. Alexander Gamble, Progress, Reefton. Arthur James Chettle, Exchange, Reeffc°Michael Edward Powley, Gladstone, Reefton. Trbinas Kenning, Criterion, Reefton. John James Favell, Occidental, Reefton.

ACCOMMODATION LICENSES. Catherine Warren, Warrens, len Mile, North Beach. Denis Ryall, All Nations, Barrytown. David John Smith, Midland Railway, Kokiri. John Hinnegan, Union, Maori Gully. James Haisty, William’s, Upper Blackball. . , AT . George Batira, Bativa’s, Mawheraiti. Ann O’Donnell, Rose and Hustle, Blackwater. Louis Halm, Tramway, Paroa. William Ralph Williamson, Ferry, Rapaboe, Seven Mile. . . Albert Wright, Merrijigs, Memjigs. The applications of T. O’Brien, _ “Caledonian,” and T. Shannahan, Union, ot Greymouth, A. A. Anderson and J. Balemi, Cobden, and L. Hahn, Paroa, were adjourned till this afternoon, as the Inspector bad reported that there vieie indications of Sunday trading going on at these places. The Inspector raised an objection to the licensee of the Wallsend Hotel on the ground that there was a side door leading, from the hotel, which though not actually connected with the library, opened" on to a four-foot passage, from which persons in the library could pass into the hotel, and the policeman stationed there could not see persons passing in and out on Sundays. He. desired to see that door closed, and having spoken to Mr Cain, the licensee, he had blocked it, but Mr Rathbone, the owner, had caused it to be opened again. He could not. contend that it was an internal means of communication, but he submitted that it afforded a means of exit and entrance that should not be allowed. Hence he had brought it before the Committee for them to order it to lie closed. Mr Hannan submitted that the door merely opened on to the right-of-way, which led to the back premises. The Inspector had asked for the urinal to be removed, and that bad been done as be wished. But it was no breach of section 19Q 0 f the Act on which the Inspector relied, and had threatened the licenser with proceedings under. The Chairman said they had no power to order the door which opened on to a right-of-way to he closed, and the licensee having satisfied the Inspector as tc the removal of the urinal no further action could he taken. Mr A. Gamble’s application for the name of his Reeffon Hotel to be changed from the Progress to the Coronation was agreed to, as there was no other hotel of the same name in the district. The Committee at 1 n.m. adjourned till 2.15 p.m. for the. hearing of the objections to the licenses named and for the applications for new wholesale licenses.