AUCKLAND LICENSING COMMITTEE.
(Fbom Odb Own Cobbespondent.) Auckland, May 319 At a meeting of the City Licensing I •he mittee, the chairman (Mr J. J. Holland) t iw the question as to whether the committee si continue the practice of personally inspe >n" hotels. Borne had said they had no rig visit the hotels. That was a custom ad< by tht: total abstinence party, although j. was nothing in the act giving them power Z. so. The other moderates of tha coma . approved of abandoning the duty of inspe< "J as they aid not think it right that couimisiw ed should take on themselves the duties oE a an tives. The police were required to see hotels were kept up to a certain standard int the commissioners should act upon tne n in furnished by the police. Mr Holland unde. ng to obtain police reports for his three dist b and call a meeoing of committee for their sideration, and to visit with the police sny 1 unfavourably reported on. Some of the p at- houses have been bad, no doubt, even un system of inspection by the committee. 1 they will be without it can ouly be imag all The step of the new moderate licensing old mittee has come upon the public as a com snrprise.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 9118, 18 May 1891, Page 2
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