REBUILDING HOTEL BAR

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21280, 6 September 1932, Page 13

REBUILDING HOTEL BAR

REFUSAL OF APPLICATION SITUATION NOT APPROVED / [3Y TELEGRAPH—OWN CORRESPONDENT] WHANGAREI, Monday An application was made at the quarterly meeting of the Marsden Licensing Committee to-day by Cyril Rov Powell, / licensee and owner of the Commercial Hotel, Whangarei, to reconstruct the private bar of the hotel. The hotel is on the comer of Rose and Bank Streets, and ,tho application was. to reconstruct the bar in a building at, the rear of the hotel, now used as sample rooms, and facing on to Vine Street. The budding is separated from the hotel by the backyard or the hotel. Counsel for Powell said the present private bar was inadequate for the re- / quirements of patrons. He was quite aware that the police were not favourable to the application being granted on the grounds that the hotel would then be hard to supervise. However, ho ma'ntained it would be time for the police to protest if it were found that the hotel was lacking in control. There could be no

lecial objection. Inspector P. .7. O'Hara said he considered the request most unreasonable. The proposed bar would be so far removed as to constitute a new hotel. The chairman, Mr. G. N. Morris, said the sample rooms had always been held to- be part of the licensed premises. Inspector O'Hara said it might be held that the sample rooms were part of the licensed premises, but in fact they were quite apart from the nia"n hotel. The chairman said that in his opinion there was less drinking at present owing 10 the depression, and he did not th'nk the present private bar was inadequate except at certain times. . After an adjournment-, the chairman said the committee considered it was true that the private bar was inadequate. Nevertheless, it was not prepared to ;:rant the application. If an application v.*ere made to enlarge the present bar or reconstruct it in the main building, tho committee would gve such application its favourable consideration.