LICENSING COMMITTEES.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1189, 14 December 1894, Page 32

LICENSING COMMITTEES.

The quarterly meeting of the Wellington City Licensing Committee was held on Friday. Present —Rev H. Van Staveren (in the chair), Messrs J. H. Heaton, J. Young, T. W. McKenzie, E. W. Mills, J. Smith and F. de J. Clere. The police report recommended that the ceiling at the Nag’s Head should be repaired. The attorney for the owners (Mr T. G. Macarthy) stated that tenders had been called for the work. The report also mentioned that there were complaints against three hotels of late hours and Sunday trading. The chairman said if there were specific complaints against the licensees, the police would have to formulate charges, otherwise the committee could not take cognisance of them. If charges of Sunday trading were proved they would be endorsed on the license, and the license would be imperilled. The only other business was the transfer of the license of the Victoria Hotel, Abel Smith street, to Patrick Dwyer. By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent. Hastings, December 7. At the meeting of the Licensing Committee to-day, a resolution was passed thanking the Government for the steps taken to stop the sale of liquor in the Moawhango district. Mr McDonald, of Kuripapanga, attended, and said all that the committee had asked for had been done. He intends to apply next meeting for an accommodation license instead of the present one, owing to the great number of swaggers who call almost daily. The bench said they would consider the proposal if it were brought before them. An application for the transfer of the license of the Patangata Hotel was adjourned, as the applicant did not attend. By Telegraph. —Press Association. Gisbobne, December 7. At the quarterly meeting of the Licensing Bench, an application to transfer the license of a hotel recently destroyed by fire in one locality to another hotel 20 miles away- (the license of which had lapsed through an informality) was refused.

The Gazette contains a notification that Messrs F. B. Farmar, Thomas Eckford and Richard Cullen, of Wellington, have discovered a natural oyster-bed within three miles of Cape Campbell, and that they have applied for an exclusive license for the use of the same. The Public Works Department have accepted a tender for the supply of timber for the restoration of the Woodville Courthouse. As soon as a sufficient quantity of material has been delivered, the work of restoration will be put in hand on the cooperative principle. Curiously enough, when tenders wore invited for the supply of timber, there was not a single response to the advertisement. Then the department wrote to four separate sawmillers in the Hawke’s Bay district asking them to quote a price for the timber required. None of them made any reply. Finally a young man sent in an offer, and as it proved to be reasonable it was duly accepted. It would be rather interesting to ascertain what is the matter with the timber trade in Hawke’s Bay. The Marine Department have written to the Lighthouse Board at Washington for full particulars about the fog signals used in the United States lighthouses. The Railway Commissioners published in a Supplement to the Gazette on Monday an amended scale of fares and rates. Tenders have been accepted by the Manawatu Road Board as follow: —KarereKairanga road, A. Forsaith, £3O 12s for trimming, £276 5s for metalling; Ruff’s road, G. Guild, £8 for formation and culverts, and 33s per chain for trimming and metalling.