RETENTION OF LICENSES

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 171, 21 June 1926, Page 10

RETENTION OF LICENSES

PREPARATIONS AT PAEROA.

REPAIRS AND FURNISHING OF HOTELS. PAEROA, June 18. Whatever may bo tho effect of restoration of lilcensAs in v the Ohinemuri electorate, the fact remains that from .an ’external point of view “new life” has set in for Paeroa. All that remains now is to wait until tho Bench sits again.this month, doubts as to whom and where the licenses are to be dealt out will be finally determined. In the meantime elaborate and extensive alterations are being effected to the hotels in Paeroa, which upwards of 17 years ago carried licenses to retail spirituous liquors. A large number of tradesmen of various callings are employed on the three houses, which, it is expected, will bo allowed to throw open their doors on July 1 next for the sale of. liquor. These buildings, for tho most part, since no-license was carried, have been allowed to fall back with regard to repairs. Now they are destined to follow a new and different course, quite a transformation’scene is being enacted. The alterations being effected will render them not only miles ahead of what tho buildings were when they were first erected, but will allow them to be compared favourably with most hotels in the Dominion from every point of view. No expense is being spared, and nothing is left wanting that is calculated to add to the comfort and convenience of the local and travelling public. Paeroa has had, since restoration of licenses, a wonderful cheap advertisement,