OHINEMURI LICENSES.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4989, 18 June 1926, Page 2

OHINEMURI LICENSES.

PRONOUNCEMENT OF COMMITTEE.

TEN TO BE GRANTED,

WAITOA & RAILWAY REFUSED,

The adjourned sitting of the Ohinemuri Licensing Committee Vor the. purpose of considering applications tor publicans’ licenses was held at the Courthouse, Paeroa, to-day. When the committee adjourned on June 2, after a sitting extending over two days, and devoted mainly to the hearing of evidence on behalf of the, applicants, the chairman (Mr J. H. Salmon, S.M.) intimated that no licenses could be granted pending receipt of the Health Department’s reports on the. sanitary conditions, etc., obtaining at the various buildings in course Of erection and renovation. The members of the Committee present were : Messrs J. H. Salmon, S.M, (chairman), W. J. Towers, P. E. Brenan, W. Marshall, W. M. Wallnutt, and W. F. Walters, and the returning officer and clerk, Mr P. H. Wylde. At the sitting to-day the following pronouncement wa.s made by the committee:—

"The applicants will be expecting the committee at this .adjouriimeiit of the annual meeting to grant certain licenses to take effect from July 1 next.

“The. Committee, by some of its members, has inspected all the premises referred to in the applications, and it finds that, although extensive building operations and improvements are being undertaken in all these premises, not one of them in its present condition could, be described as reasonably fit ajid ready to receive the grant of a license. In some cases the. sanitary arrangements are far from being completed—some are .only just being commenced. The result, is that final, reports cannot be furnished by the Public Health Department. The Committee takes the st.a ( nd that it will not formally grant a license in respect of premises until such premises are in a reasonable condition to justify the granting of such license.

"The Committee recognises, however, th.a,t, in view of the passing of some 17 years, the owners and applicants have had considerable difficulties to face in collection, with the rebuilding and reaiovation of old premises, and we propose, therefore, to make a pronouncement to assist the applicants.

“If the premises in each of the following instances had been completed to a reasonable extent in accordance with the plans and proposals laid before the Committee on the Ist instant, and if proper sanitary arrangements had been completed, and the whole been subject to favourable reports from .the Department of Public Health, the Committee would have granted licenses to the following applicants subject to the special conditions (if any) : —

Joseph Molloy, Kerepeehi Hotel Kerepeehi.

Lewis Emanuel Cassrels, Criterion Hotel, Prie.roa.

Ernest Phillip Fathers, Commercial Hotel, Paeroa.

Edmund William Gibson ’Smith Paeroa Hotel, Paeroa.

William John Seiwood, Waikino Hotel, Waikino.

Arthur Kerr, Golden Cross Hotel, Waihi. John Kelly, Commercial Hotel, Waihi. John Benjamin Weedon, Rob Roy Family and Commercial Hotel, Waihi. PROPOSED NEW BUILDINGS. “With regard to the application by Catherine Vincent Crosby for a publican’s license in resp&.t of proposed premises to be erected in Paeroa to be known as the Royal Mail Hotel, and to the application by Medora Stevens for a publican’s license in respect of proposed premises to be elected in Waihi to be known .as the Sterling Hotel, the Committee has already pointed out that it has no power to grant licenses in respect of buildings which are not in existence, and the only course legally possible is to adjourn the annual, meeting. The Committee desires to intimate to these two appicants that their plans for new buildings have the approval of the Committee, and th,at these applicants are approved by the Committee. “Having given these intimations, the Committee proposes to afijourn the annual meeting ,to Monday, June 28, 1926, at 10.30 a.m., and if any of the abovementioned applicants’ premises should on that date be in ,a reasonably fit condition to receive a license on the terms above mentioned the Committee will grant the application. RAILWAY HOTEL, PAEROA'. “The application by Robert Emmet Bradley for a, publican’s license in respect of the Railway Hotel, Paeroa, is refused. The Commttee is of opinion thiit the owners have no preferential claim to consideration. WAITOA HOTEL. “The application by Mrs Mary Blakely Montgomery for a publican’s license in respect to the Waitoa Hotel, Waitoa, is refused.”

The. grounds for refusal by the Committee, and the address by Mr H. O. Cooney, counsel for the applicant, will be published on Monday.