WAKATPU LICENSING COMMITTEE.

Lake County Press, Issue 2737, 6 June 1918, Page 5

WAKATPU LICENSING COMMITTEE.

ANNUAL MEETING. (Lake Wakatip Mail). The quarterly aoid annual meeting of. the Wak.at.ipu Licensing Committee was held in the (Courthouse, Queanstown an Saturday the Ist June, 1918, at noon when there were present.:. Messrs Geo. Cru : .ekshaii.k, S.M. (chairman), and A. End, G. F. Johnson, D. F. Sutherland, Jas. Mackenzie and S. A. Stevens, members .of the committee. LICENSE FEES. The Chairman stated that a number •oi requests' were received from hotelkeepers .asking Cor a reduction in the license fees on account of early closing. In reply thereto he could only state that the Commitjtee had noi power to reduce the fees. It was only

in the case of accommodation houses that tho fees could be reduced. OUTSIDE LIGHTS. Several hote.lkccpe.rs applied to he allowed to put out their outsideliffhtte at midnight instead .of burning 1 them all night, The Chairman stated that the Committee had power to grant, such a concession. They recognised that fuel, and particularly carbide) was exjpeinsive and therefore the Committee did not want to enforce tflie law too strictly. It was therefore agreed to allow aid country hotelkeepers to close down their lights at 11 o'clock. Hotelkeepers in borough and those under the jurisdiction of town hoards must, however get permission in the first place from the local controlling authority oefore an application could be considered: by the Committee. DUXSTAN HOTEL APPLICATION. In connection with the a plicate on. of W. Alderdico for a renewal of the license' fr »' the Dunstan Hotel, the police hie I objections that the house was not i>e;._y properly conducted. The objections lay mainly in the fact that liquor was being sold after hours from a back bar leading into abdlJiiard' loom. Sorgt. McGlono, Clyde, stated that the billiard room was used by com!-* mercial travellers and on certain occasions after hours the latter and, their clients, (local busiiness-meni) had, obtained drink at his kick bar. The) licensee had conducted his hotel in a more orderly manner lately, and promised to lock the door leading into the billiard room. Mr McKean, solicitor, Clyde, appeared in support of the application, and after due consideration the Committee) granted the application oil condition that tho door leading from tJio bar: to the billiard room be provided with a pro])er lock and key and be kept locked after 6 p.m. GLENORCHY HOTEL. The police, represented by Inspector Fouhy, made complaints that the former licensee still resided at the hotel and seemed to have control of the business. He. (the old licensee), had recently bought a cow and did carrying between the hotel and wharf. Under the circumstances it was considered by tho police that there could not be very much inn provement. There had been no complaint regarding the conduct of the house since Mr Thornton took it over. Mr Turton who appeared for the) applicant stated that the i'ormen licensee had always been engaged in the carrying business and he did not think there could be any objection to his buying a cow. The Chairman Siaid that the Committee had considered this' matter and did not feel disposed to do anything. The previous licensee had been punished enough in having his license taken from him. Mr Thornton had so far conducted the hotel alright and he saw no reason for objecting to, the application, which would be granted. ii ■ ,%!!» Hi WAIKAIA HOTEL. The application for a renewal of the license for this hotel' was adjourned till the September sitting of t|hci Committee on account of adverse reports put in bv the police. MISCELLANEOUS. In consequence of the destruction by fire of the Nevis Hotel the licensee asked to be allowed to close his business for twelve months. The application was granted under the Liquor Restriction Act. The Committee made it an instruction to the police that all bedrooms 'in two-storied hotels which were not already provided with ropes must in future have this requisite supplied. The only exception was in cases where the window opened out on to a ■ balcony. In such case also a ladder : or stairway should be attached to, ' the balcony. The licensee of the Royal Hotel, who had recently been fined for a > breach of the Act, and whose appli- : cation was granted, was warned to be < more careful in the future. ' M. L. Spratt, Lowburn Hotel, was ' granted leave of absence for a month, and his son permitted to carry on in ' his stead. ' The police reported favourably on the other hotels in the district^ All other applications as below were; granted. Transfers of publican's licenses we net . granted as follows:—Golden Age Ho- ( te.l, Cromwell, Robert Ha'ng to Joseph , Dunoombe Winter; Elbow Hotel, , Lumsdein, John Clisby to Margaret Elizabeth Macpherson. . New , applications for old houses granted as follows: Accommodation License.—S. Butson, j junr., Junction Hotel, Parrawa. Publican's Licenses.—Olgar A. J. j Thornton,Glenorchy HoieL, Glenorchy; ( Catherine Meenan, Hartley Arms , Hotel, Clyde; Peter Meld rum, j Victoria Hotel, Cromwell; Joseph D. , Winter, Golden Age Hotels Cromwell!) Margaret Elizabeth Macpherson, El- i bow Hotel, Lumsden. —Publicans' Licenses. — : Renewals of tho following license* , were granted:— Van Palne, Eichardt's Hotel, Queens- , town; Leon Curtis, Mcßrides-Family Hotel, Queenstown; John Timpany, , Post. Office Hotel, Queenstown; Johfn Stephen Collins, Mountaineer Hotel, Queenstown; Michael J. Lynch. Antrim Arms Hotel, Frankton; William .). Churstain, Fenry Hotel, Lower Shofcover; Margaret McChesney, Junction Hotel, Arthurs Point; Andrew Jopp, Royal Oak Hotel, Arrowtown; William Peiigla.se, BaUarat Hotel, Arrow-' town; Mary Johnston, Central Hotel, Arrowtown; Claude F. Young, Mt. Earnslaw Hotel, Glenorchy; Leonard Gee, Rivers dale Hotel, Riversd»le; Leah Ann Cruickshank, Crown Hotel, Waikaia; William Kelly, Railway Hotel, Rivers-dale ; Joseph Michael Crosbie, Railway Hotel, Lumsden; William J. Spanse, Empire Hotel.] Waiicaia; William Cronin, Commercial Hotel, Waikaia. ; George Larking, <Y;inmercial Hotel, Clyde; James Andrew McLedowney, Bannock ourn Hotel, Bannockburn; James McDon»!.l, Dawson's Hotel, Cromwell; Michael Louis Spratt, Welcome Home Hotel, Lowburn; Hugh George Smith Glass, Wanaka Hot&l, Pembroke; Aeeommodat.;on Licenses. Henry John H. Lewis, Welcome. Home Hotel, Long Gully; Roibert Kenton Cameron. Lake Wakatipu Hotel, Kingston; John Plank, Garston Hotel, Garston; John Willoughby, Cardrona Hotel, Cardrona; Denis Corcoran, Royal Hotel. Waikaka; Maurice M. Roche, Railway Hotel, Mandeville; Henry Joseph Hunt, Albion Hotel, Luggate; William Faa Robertson, Nevis Hotel, Nevis; William Reid, Queensberry Inn, Queensberry; John Griffiths, Hawea Flat Hotel, Hawea Flat; James Constantino Olive, Longridge Hotel, Balfour; Packet Licenses. Leonard Robertson, p.s. "Mountaineer," Queenstown;. Leonard Robertson, s.s. "Ben Lomond," Queenstown.; Wholesale License. David A. Jolly and Sons, Melmore Terrace, Cromwell. Mr Wesley Turton appeared in support of the majority of the applications. No bad after-effects with "WADE'S H WORM FIGS. Wonderful Worm Worriers. • Price 1/6.