Manawatu Licensing Committee

Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 38, 15 February 1939, Page 3

Manawatu Licensing Committee

ELECTION NEXT MONTH In consequence of the change of boundaries in the electorates, the licensing committees which ha\ c been operating for the licensing districts of Manawatu (at Eoxton) and Oroua (at Feilding) will hold their last meetings in the first week of March, after which tho Oroua Licensing Committee will no longe. exist, and one committee, to be calletl the Mauawatu Licensing Committee, will be instituted. For this purpose the returning officer for the Manawatu electorate at Feilding (Mr. F. S. Collier) will shortly call for nominations for the election of five members of the new licensing committee. If more than five nominations are received an election will be held throughout the whole of the Manawatu electoral district in March in a manner similar to the recent general election.

The old Manawatu Licensing Commit tee at Foxton and tho Oroua Licensing Committee at Feilding will then become defunct and a new Licensing Committee elected will in future sit at Feilding.

Through the recent change of elector al boundaries, the following hotels will be placed iu the Rangitikei licensing district: Ivimbolton, Mangaweka, Ohingaiti, Hunterville (2), Rangiwahia and Cheltenham; and also wholesale licenses held at Hunterville and Mangaweka. The hotels which will be tajken into the new Manawatu Licensing District will be those at Longburn, Awahuri and Sanson.

Arrangements for the conduct of tho election are now in the hands of the returning officer at Feilding. The Oroua Licensing Committee has been functioning for 36 years. The first reported annual meeting was held on .Tune 8, 1903, at which there were present Messrs. A. Greenfield, S.M. (chairman), W. A. L. Bailey, F. Y. Lethbridge, A. Dick, R. Mcßeth and John Bruce.

Tho committee at present holding office comprises: Messrs. R. M. Watson, S.M. (chairman), T. Watson, P. G. Guy, W. G. Booth, G. Bartholomew and E. G. Goodbehere.