LICENSING COMMITTEE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 160, 8 June 1939, Page 10

LICENSING COMMITTEE.

ANNUAL MEETING. T he annual meeting ol Ihe Pahiatua Licensing Commit lee was held at the Courthouse, \Voodville. Tbe following members were present: Mr 11. I*. Lawr.v, S.AI. (chairman), Messrs A\ . Britland, J. Carston, 11. P. Horne, F. AI. Kenney and J. S. Williams. Permanent transfers were granted from Mrs Hilda Eaton Tucker to • lames Wilson Griffith, in respect to the Royal Oak Hotel, Weber, and from Cecil Erward Oliver Badeley to Court Thomason, Settlers’ Arms Hotel, Ormondville. New licenses were granted to the following:—John Do Purton .Manson. Rutland Hotel. Pahiatua; Edmond John Kiely, Andrews Hotel, Dannevirke; Thomas Howard Poet.. Manga tern. Hotel, Dannevirke; John Fearon, Junction Hotel, Dannevirke: James Wilson Griffith, Royal Hotel. Weber; James Valentine Harrison, Duke of Edinburgh Hotel, Porangahau; Guert. Thomasen, Settlers’ Arms Hotel. Ormondville. Renewals ot publicans’ licenses. Claude Nelson, Post Office Hotel. Woodville: George Whillans, Masonic Hotel, Woodville; Samuel Campbell Commercial Hotel. 'Woodville: Barbara Reid. Dudley Arms Hotel. Mangatainoka ; Patrick'Lee O'Neil. Commercial Hotel, Pahiatua: Ixnri Irvine. Club Hotel, Pahiatua; William Kernick, Post. Office Hotel. Pahiatua; Erie Jury, Mnkuri Hotel. Makuri ; Henry Benzie, Ma c onio Hotel, Dannevirke; Gerald Keller. Club Hotel. Dannevirke; .Tames Fisher. TTerhertville Motel, Herbertville : James Alnrphv Takapau Hotel, Takapnu: James Collins, Crown Hotel. Norsewood; Harold Sands, Junction Hotel. Norsewood; Frederick Sands, Makotuku Hotel. Makotuku. Renewals of wholesale licenses were granted to the Wairarapa farmers Co-operative Association, Ltd.. Pahin.tua. and Barraud and Abraham, Ltd., Dannevirke. Applications for renewals of licenses for the Central Tlotel and Wimbledon Hotel were adjourned for three months pending certain repairs being effected. The Dannevirke Hunt Club made application for a license to have a booth at its point-to-point meeting at Pahiatua. and this was granted. The question of lights outside the entrances to hotels was raised, and it was agreed that the lights should be extinguished at 6 o’clock at hotels in the Ixirouglm and at 10 o'clock at outside hotels. . , , The chairman said that, the hotels had been well conducted, there being somo after-hour trading cases, but not more than usual. Sergeant Dyer agreed that tnc. hotels had l>een well conducted. The chairman congratulated the licensees on escaping the penal clauses in the meantime.