HOTEL LICENSES

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 143, 2 June 1936, Page 4

HOTEL LICENSES

Meeting of Napier Committee The opinion that the conduct of Napier hotels during the past year had been good was expressed yesterday by Mr J. Miller, S.M., chairman of the Napier District Licensing Committee, at the annual meeting of the committee in the Napier Courthouse, The standard of the hotels, with the exception of the oldest one, was also good. Messrs A. G. Pallet, A. W. Pirie and A. J. McGlashan were associated with Mr Miller at the meeting. Publicans’ licences were issued to Mary Frances Theresa Waugh (Clarendon) ; Harold Claude Fox (Provincial). J he following were granted renewals ol their licences.—Joseph Lawrence Jeffares (Albion), Frederick George Staff (Central), Nathan Solomon (Criterion), Augustus Nicholas Mathieson (Crown), Douglas Thomas Sinclair (Empire;, Robert Chesney (Masonic), Andrew Hanley Annan (Napier), Edward Hill Limbrick (Plumpton Park), James Biggins (Railway), Annie Mary McClelland (Royal), Albert Herbert Jensen (Terminus) Charles Roderick Newman (Union), Peter Cleary (Victoria), Stanley Herbert Neagle (Taradalc) John Griffin Fuszard (Waverley) Charles Philip Cosgrove (Weslshorc) M holesale licences were renewed as luJlous:-Barry’s Bottling Co., Ltd., Dalgety and Co., Ltd., Ellison and Dunean Ltd.,, Donald William I laser, llindmarsh Ltd-, Murray, Roberts and Co., Ltd , Suiishine Brewery Co. Ltd. Warren, Smith and Co.. Ltd , Williams and Kettle Ltd. Inspector J. Fitzpatrick, reporting upon his inspection of the lio.els, recommended alterations to the t aiedouian Hotel which Mr J. Humphries, who appeared for the licensee, described as being in the nature of a bombshell They would mean considerable expense, be said, as they amounted to the modernising of the eeteblishment. H e could

not give an assurance that the work would be completed, Mr Miller said that last year’s committee had said that some action would have to be taken in regard to th 6 damp wallpaper in many of the rooms, and had said that the work would have to be done, although it could stand over until the September meeting if some assurance could be given that the alterations would be made. The committee adjourned until September until arrangements for the alterations could be made.