LICENSING LAWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 163, 11 June 1936, Page 11

LICENSING LAWS.

CRITICISED AS ARCHAIC. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, June 10. Disquieting revelations as to the conditions in certain Auckland hotels were made at tno annual meeting of tho Auckland Licensing Committee. After visiting all of tno older hotels, the committee adjourned consideration of the licenses or six houses ior reports from owners or architects. “The committee desires "to inspect some of the older houses because it feels that these houses should be rebuilt,” said Mr Hyvern Wilson, S.M., ] who presided. “Since these houses were built Auckland has progressed enormously. It is true several large hotels have been built, but the committee is informed that the accommodation is taxed and at some seasons inadequate. It is in the interests of the jpublic that these should be rebuilt. “The committee has asked mo to say that it considers tho time is long overdue for a comprehensive re-enactment of tho licensing laws,” continued Mr Wilson. “They are in many respects archaic, having come into being in tho seventies and early eighties, when public requirements were quite different.”