APPLICATION FOR LICENSE REFUSED.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1861, 10 July 1920, Page 6

APPLICATION FOR LICENSE REFUSED.

|Fu Pbibb Ahsooiation.) TAURANGA, July 10. After a, lengthy hearing the Taiirangn Licensing Committee at 10.20 last night :eJused tho application of Mr A. Montgomery for an accommodation license al Matamata. The- case created considerable, interest owing l to tho method adopted to secure a transfer of a license a gicuter dl> unco than one mile, namely from Maketu, in the Pay of Plenty, Vo Matamata. At Pe annual niectirig of tho committee on June 10 application was made arid granted for the renewal of the Maketu license. At the same meeting application was made for a license at Matamata, but ll)ero being then no license vacant, ilie npplicnnl sought mid secured tin adjoifrnnient of this application for one montli. Mt-anlime, by tho jioii-[>i'.ymei;l of the fee, the Maketu license v.as allowed to l:;_P'.e, so thai when llio Matamata application ctime lief ore tho cominiit.'- on 'lhursday lasl there was I lien ti license available. _ , Tin chairman of the committee (?>h- \\. <l. K. !\. iiiiek, S.M.), in announcing the (Icci.iion -.) l 'lie majori'v of the committee, .':iid thai the application was tefuscd on' tin* "ro:i.ids that they thought there was tdrer.(ly sidlicient accommodation in the .MalMir.t>, and that there was no necessity for a livc.vse. Each party was ordered to jiav itm own costs. li was staled in evidence that since the application was, first made n building had, been erected at, Matamata at a cost, of about £4OOO. Thus being inside.tho brick ttrea unci not in brick, lias now, tinder hgreement with tho Mntr.muta Town Hoard, Jo be moved eutsido tho brick area.