OHINEMURI LICENSING DISTRICT.

Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume I, Issue 26, 11 June 1892, Page 4

OHINEMURI LICENSING DISTRICT.

THE WAIHI LfCENSE.

Daring the hearing of the application for the renewal of the license of the Waihi hotel the following letter was

Thames, January 2, 1892. Mr Mitchell, Chief Constable, Paeroa.

Dear Sir, —Referring to oar conversation on December 30, and, to what you informed me Herbert Gordon, of Waihi, had been stating as my reason for complaining to you about the manner his house was conducted, I beg.to inform that, on my reaching Waihi, I taxed Mr Gordon with spreading a false statement, and I told him exactly the case as you stated it to me. Mr George Purchas, was then present, and heard him deliberately and repeatedly give your statement a flat denial; in fact, he again and again said "Itis a lie." Mr Gordon told me plainly that his hotel will never more give me shelter. He positively refused me accommodation on account of my having been the means of stopping his best day's (Sunday's) trade —his own words. I will be in Paeroa next week, and intend .seeing the Licensing Commission to ascertain if I may have assurance of permission to run a house under their license which shall not be a mere grog shop, and ' lambing down' establishment, but shall be a house of accommodation to those resident on and for visitors to Waihi. _ ,1 understand that next licensing term is in July next.—Yours,"&c, J. W. WaLker. P.S.—You are quite at liberty to make whatever use of this letter.yoa may deem to the public good, or to your own amusement; and to show it to any members of the Commission, or the editors of your two papers.—J.W.W. It wa9 alleged that the licensee had stated that it was owing to an account due by Mr Walker to him that he (Mr Walker) did not stay at the hotel. These accounts were produced in Court and were stated by Mr Gordon to be still owing.