SALE OF LIQUOR AT TRENTHAM RACES.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIII, Issue 15, 20 January 1919, Page 2

SALE OF LIQUOR AT TRENTHAM RACES.

OPPOSED BY POLICE. CONDITIONAL LICENSE GRANTED A DIVIDED COMMITTEE. (United 1 IPress . Association.) ! WELLINGTON, Jan. 18. , A special meeting of the' Licensing Committee was held yesterday, when Mr Lowe, licensee .of the Treutliam Hotel, made application for a conditional license for the sale of liquor at the Trentham races, i Sergeant. Bird opposed the application | on behalf of the police. Ho stated that the grounds of his objection to the issuing of a license were (that it was not required and that the conduct of race ■ meetings without a license had greatly improved them. The proximity of Trentham Camp was also a reason why . it should not be granted. In the event . of a license being granted, he made a suggestion that no liquor should be sold for consumption off the permises. A motion that the application be declined was supported byi Messrs J. W. McEwan, J, Cotton, and W. Wearne. An. amendment that the application be granted, subject to the condition that men from the military camps in hospital uniform be not supplied with liquor, was voted for by Messrs W. i Cotton, M. Welch, and the chairman (Mr Riddell).. ! A tie thus resulted, • and Mr Riddell gave his Casting vote in favour of the amendment.

The application was (therefore granted. subject to the pondi’.ion mentioned. - run —■!■■■ It .. 111. I-