PETANE DISTRICT.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5399, 4 June 1879, Page 3

PETANE DISTRICT.

NEW APPLICATIONS. George Boggsreceived a' new license for the Waverley Hotel, and subsequently th;e, existing .license was; trausf erred 'from. George Bradley to. him. . .OWOBNSE REFUSED. ' jA. G. : D.<M'Leod applied for a: license foE.'j.thefriewi Eonini Hotel^ to take the place:6f; the onei recently burned^down'. j Mr Macdonald- appeared for the appli-: cant, . . j . , , '■The O^airihansaid that Inspector Scully, h^^repprfed'^liat'/the hbtel j'was iiot ■wijbhln'f'the ' Petane, district—^the applicati^,;^oiild , be ,' ; m"ade to ( the Ngaruroro i3 . r ,-.,(> :,,. iv -.; ■!,...• iJlßoMacdQnald jaid, the^ licensß had before|been granted by. thifl Court, ai^dhe thought; the Bench: might take their previous? action asrcorrect, and issue: the license. - .Of course the licensee would have to run the risk of the license being a valid one. f v --;; ""- Scully produced a map and a copY of the Gazette? to prove that the Petane district ended at the Ngaruroro river/) H ;] 1:. ' \j' ■:/>' V Constable Livingstone said i lie knew that the old hotel^asp^cthe south side ol^the^riyerj and the , new .building, . though not' 'on* the J same' site, .was to be on the ' Bame ; ei^Q^ ,jr / ;.-, & ,?A"< i ■! ,">:'.■■ ■'■■ '■.■■l In B^69^9^ Scully said" another application had been lodged in.theNgaruroro district. ofMT/Macdpnald said..-jth.at was;for,another Kotel^ninQ.mileSjaway.i.i;; „: ;, <: .: „ Inspector, . Soully explained . that ..there were only about a dozen houses ; within a radius of 30 miles, and -two houses were not .needed.: : He -had, /besides, to; complauj i( pf !ihej, ; ma|iner. in . „whifih...thft< old Konini jßotethad; been, conducted.' The; Chairman said he had,'in converaation with InspectomSoully," suggested that the objection to jurisdiction should be withdrawn^but Mr> Scully had stated <that if he were ipeapen on this .point he should Btill oppose the issue_ of 'the license, because the old house Had. been, so abominr a M,^dupL:;" >I feren4if;,?;the; C^t Seojdedj to jjisk^ jurisdictio'nj there^wpuld frave to \Tb^ jau^adjpu^naeWjfqr^/t'tfeJpjQj ductioja l pf J ,e i vid*ence in support.of/ihe other obJoptjpn. SiTJndjer the pircunaßJiance^^he Court had therefore decided that their jarisdic^oavwas^piißjied^aiivthat^waSf^the simplest way, of [settling, the question. License refused. pv | vjrenbwais.a i», .j;: All the existing; licenses were renewed, no objection being made to any of them.