ALL DISMISSED

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 60, Issue 4350, 1 November 1950, Page 5

ALL DISMISSED

LICENSING APPEALS

COMMISSION’S RULING »

A PAEROA APPLICATION

Appeals by unsuccessful applicants at Paeroa, Te Aroha and Whakatane for wholesale and publicans’ licences were dismissed by the Licensing Control Commission, sitting in Hamilton recently. The commission read a judgment in which it was held by the commission that there was no right

of appeal. Mr R. A. Houston, appearing for two Te Aroha applicants and a Whakatane applicant, asked that the appeals •be adjourned and not dismissed and submitted that right of appeal had been conferred by Section 65 of the Licensing Amendment Act, 1948. He stated that it was the intention of appellants to file motion for a writ of mandamus to compel the commission to hear the appellants on the merits of their applications. Mr A. M. Goulding, S.M., chairman, said that adjournment of the appeals was not desirable or wise because the Supreme Court might say that the commission had not finally determined the appeals. A better policy would be to dismiss all of the appeals leaving the parties to take mandamus proceedings if they saw fit to do So.