ANNUAL LICENSING MEETINGS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7660, 10 June 1886, Page 5

ANNUAL LICENSING MEETINGS.

,> EDEN TERRACE. Tith annual meeting of the committee of the Edeu Terrace licensing district was held at noon yesterday, at •.Uβ office of the clerk (Mr. Thomas Seaman). The business was for the purpose of considering the application for a renewal of the license to Mr. W. W. Wornock for the Eden Vine Hotel. All the members of the committee were present, Mr. A. Porter occupying the chair. Tho chairman said the committee believed that publicans should be treated as ordinary men, and that if they profess to sell a certain article that such should be dons. It was to be regretted that if a person called for whisky he got something else than that, not that he wished it to be inferred that Mr. Warnock was doing other than the rest of the publicans. The committee had nothing against the house aa at present managed, but there wae one matter ho was tmrprised at, and that was the absence of boarders. The district was a healthy one, and, if better known, should command an influx of visitors. Mr. J. B. Graham (for Mr. Cotter) appeared for Mr. Warnock. The inspector's report was read, and it proved to be favourable, except in the matter of fire-escapes, of which there were none, and that repairs were needed to the house. After a short conversation, in which several of the committee drew attention to the promise that had been made, that a new house should be erected, it was agreed to grant the renewal of the license, subject to the arrangement that fire-escapes were provided, and the house put into a thorough state of repair, or arrangements made for the erection of a new house. It was also agreed that the light outside the house could be extinguished at ten p.m.—the hour at which tho hotel closed.

WAITOA. I BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Tk Aroha, Wednesday. The annual licensing meeting for the Waitoa district was held on the 7th instant. Present: Messrs. Chepmell (chairman), Turnbull, K. Parr, and Gubbins. Renewals were granted to Robert S. Brown for the Nottingham Castle Hotel, and John Smith for the Phoenix Hotel, both of Morrinsville. A license was also granted to Albert Gabolinaky for the Waitoa Hotel, at Waitoa. R. A. Brown applied for permission to remove his licensed premises to a site nearer the railway station, bnt the application was refused, on the grounds that the committee had no power to grant a removal to premises where there is no house in existence.