LICENSING MEETING.

Mataura Ensign, Volume V, Issue 237, 13 March 1883, Page 2

LICENSING MEETING.

The first meeting of * 'the recently elected Licensing Committee for the district of Gore ;wa& held at, the Courthouse, jjGfore'/ on. Saturday.' Present — Meßsra Beattie, Aitken, Gardner, TurnMi aY/d Smalli. <i «H'd Vi H ' 'O'i | j BIiEC.TION OP. CHAIRMAN. „ ■ >^„,.,i For the office of "Chairman two members wer^ proposed, vias,,, Messrs JaimSfiTurnbull and James Beattie. A show of; hands was taken in the usual way and Mr James Beattie'- r elected. ; ) t i > O , r a-., ; OKDINARY BUSINESS ', \ Constable Pratt reported .that |at the last meeting of the Licensing Committee it was decided thatjallholders of licensed^ouseß pf , v two ! storiesshould J provid^'fire escapes. ' He* hud inspected the hotels in the district, but only Mrs Mulvey, of Gprdon, (j an.d : Mr Gee, of River sdale, ha'd/'aß yet, provided fire escapes.., j- ■■.. j; . __ ,■ ■, -,-.- : ,- -. .-- ; ? :- ; ' Mr Henderson said that hotelkeepera were somewhat perplexed as to what would be considered a. Buffioient. fire escape, 0 v Mr S^maili' moved that 'holders of licenses' oocupihg'two atory houses in' the district' should he again served with notices to provide their ho^e^rjwjth fire-esQape B,^^tißfao- (- tory to the p'olicQ ; failing t'o^ do. this' before the| annual meeting 1 their licenses to be liable tio cancellation. Seconded by Mr Gardner and pajri^d-. !){ j] \ '^ [■$ ]■/. j t Mr Henderson made an application for the transfer of license from Martin Wellbrock to Mr! George Eishenden, of the Southland Club Hotel. The police having no objection to the < transfer, Mr Turnbull moved that the application be ! granted. r Mr,' i Gardner I i seooft.d^d, the' u [The Be^ph would then.h^ye, anop- ', • p^brWnity 'of seeing how the house' was con "- ' ducted;' A' ; deal "of respbheibility lfested wifih the Bench, and they could] not be too careful as to whom they graated licinQes. Carried. v . „ . ( . ; , .•.-•«,,-., Mr flen'der6on made an application on behalf of Mr J^mea Roche, of the Mandeville Hotel. MaudovilleV for ' a conditional license on St. Patrick's i>ay— the day upon races s ,were to be, held at^Mattdevill,^. 'Granted.,;;, C'ffo > T VT '"') ' ''?'?** Wf» Mr Hendefsoti 58 ' poitited oub was no fixed fee for conditional .licenses, and further said he thought it unjuat that a publiojvu at Handeville should—have to pay as large a, ; Buoi , for a, conditional I'cenße larger centres, such a Gore and. 'Mataura. ' Proposed by Mr Smaill seconded by Mr Aitken, and parried, that i; with, the; exoe[pJiion of holdera of licenses in Gore and Mataura, conditional licenses be granted at £2 2s for the first., day.- -tad; <£1) la for the second day. Foes for conditional licenses in Gore-orfMatanra £3 33 for the-firekday and £i 115,.6ji f p^ second day? ,-,.. <. . ., , t; , « Mr AW ridge Made an application tinder section 99 of the; Licensing Act to ; allow' Helen Watson, of ithe Southland; Hotel, to catry on the business " of the late Thomaß Wa^on,, deceased, uatiljnext quarterly, mee.t-. ing. Granted. , The? clerk's remuneration was fixed at £2 2a for the annual meeting, and £1 Is for each quarterly meeting. t Tbia Waa : all 'the i business. • ' "■ .'; :