WAIKATO LICENSING COMMITTEE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11684, 20 June 1901, Page 6

WAIKATO LICENSING COMMITTEE.

[by TELEGRAPH.—OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

Hamilton, Wednesday. The adjourned annual meeting of the Yt'aikato Licensing Committee was held to-day. Present: Messrs. H. W. Northcroft, S.M. (chairman), Bailey. Edgecumbe, Storey and Coates. Mr. O'Neill appeared for .several applicants and Mr. Swarbriek in one case. The chairman, in opening the proceedings, said the committee had decided that balconies will have to be erected on aTi houses over one storey so that escape may be posable from each bedroom and thence to the ground. The improvements are to be made before the December meeting. Objections were urged by counsel. The- Chairman said ate eases ot fare had shown that further provisions for escape were necessary. Mr. £» !u ? S T\i°l the i Waikato Hotel, Hamilton, said that m the case of las house the provision was unnecessary and difficult .0 carry out. The Chairman sam it lua<t be done, and .Mr. LeVJuesue remarked " that they might as well take away his license 1 Renewal were . granted a.s under—Harbour View (Raglan), Baker, £25; Royal & U),ry £""' £ T 5: Alpha (KihikSK £40- >V« 1 ' S , tiU ' ~( Kli" k ll' l ' . Farquaar, £40, le Awamutu fie Awamutu), Laurie i->U, Commercial (Te Awamutu) J Raft, C* IS ; elta i -;?-r v£ ' buS2. bag, £40; Waipa, Guthrie £40- Royal (Hamilton), Baker, £40; Hamilton taffi knkh ?£n 'w*m ; Co »? merc:ti Ulamiltou), S\ i t Wu S? to Hamilton), LeQuesne £40; Irankton (irankton), Rowland £25; Ohaupo (Ohaupo), Teddy, £25; Railway Mercer) Ha lie, £25; Hnntly (Huntiy), « in £^; Al . CM , ndra (Pirongia), Finch, hi IDs: ia "V, m (Taupiri), Lovell, £15; Uhatuwliata (Whatawhata), Greenwood, £12 10s; Rangirm (Hangiriri), Reid, £15; Waingc.lo (\\aingarp), Wilson, £10: New Brighton (Miranda), -Smith £10 The transfer of the Te'Awamutu Hotel from L. h^ A. Leslie to M. S. Laurie «as granted, Iho application of Mrs. Harris for an eleven o'clock license lor the Huutly Hotel was granted. Sergeant Stapleton objected on behalf of the police.