“DISGRACE TO CITY”

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 227, 8 September 1936, Page 9

“DISGRACE TO CITY”

Some Wellington Hotel Buildings MAGISTRATE’S WARNING By Telegraph—Press Association. WELLINGTON, September 7. “Some of the Wellington hotel build ings would be a disgrace to any city ip New Zealand and are allowed to stand at the present time only because they comply with the letter and not with the Spirit of the law,” said Mr J. 11. Luxford, S.M., elmiiman of the Wellington Licensing Committee, at a special meeting of the commitee today. Some of the Wellingi.cn buildings, he added, were of a high standard, uiid there were some of which any city might be proud. So seriously, however, did members of the Licensing Committee regard their obligations regarding many of the other buildings that during the next three months they were going to inspect every one of the 47 hotels in the Wellington district and would prepare a comprehensive report upon the buildings.

Mr Luxford also dealt with afterhours trading. In the last three weeks, he said, there bad been eight convictions for after-hours trading, which was slightly more than one for every eight hotels. The Court had decided that it would make use of the provision in the Act regarding the endorsing of licences, and he suggested that licensees would probably realise that it paid, while the law required them to close at 6 p.tn., to observe the law rather than put their licences in jeopardy.