RESTORATION EFFECTS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4991, 23 June 1926, Page 4

RESTORATION EFFECTS.

CLUBS TURNED INTO HOTELS.

ACTION IN SCOTTISH DISTRICT.

In view of the fact that the electorate of tOhinemuri is about to celebrate its re-entry into licenses, the following article., taken from the Glasgow Sunday Post of April 24, 1926, which was handed to us by Mr W. McCullay, Paeroa,, will no doubt bo. of interest Extraordinary interest was manifested in the special Licensing Court held a.t Cambuslang to-day, for the consideration of applications for certificates by license-holders who were dispossessed ot their businesses five years ago as the result of the first Local Veto Poll.

There, was a record demand for admission to the Court, which wa,s held in the largo concert hall of the Public Tnsitute. The majority of the licenseholders were represented by Mr James Keith, K.C., son of Sir Henry Keith. The No-license party was forwaid with objections, but in the end the Court accepted the voice of the people as expressed at the last poll and granted no fewer than 27 licenses. There were only two refusals. Mr Charles Donaldson, well known in boxing and photographic oil cles, failed in his application for a, new certificate, although it was stated that he was shortly to lose a, Glasgow license in the Whitevale district as a result of a city improvement scheme. The refusal of a certificate to the. Public House Trust (Glasgow), Ltd., comes as a complete surprise, in view of the fact tha.t a license was hold in the Hallsidc district for many years prior to 1920. It transpired that the Steel Company of Scotland (Ltd.), owners of the shop, refused to let the premises on the grouiid that they did not desire to have a. public-house -in close proximity to their works at Hallside. HOMELESS CLUBS. An interesting sequel to the findings of the Court is that two of Cambuslang’s much-discussed clubs will now find themselves homeless, their present premises having been restored to the st.aus of public houses. In the. case of the Excelsior Club, an agent pointed out a curious anomaly. He stated that the club held the Sheriff’s certificate entitling them to carry on for a year, and now they had been served with a, notice to quit in order that the. shop might be turned into a public-house. On his objection being repelled the agent indicated that the matter would be tested in another Court.

Mr John Jackson, J.P., w'ho presided, warned the successful applicants tha,t their premises must be renovated and in good order on the opening day, and immediately after the Court rose several important contracts were placed for the reinovii.tion of shops thajt have been derelict for five years. The granting of a provisional certificate to Mr Seymour Cook, Glasgow, for the Black Bull public-house means that, a handsome new building will be erected at Station Square,, Main Street.