REMOVAL OF LICENSE.

Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume IX, Issue 729, 8 September 1900, Page 2

REMOVAL OF LICENSE.

M. Gh Power applied for a removal of the license of the Central Hotel at Wsihi to another site. Mr Baume (with' Jfcr Jackson) appeared in support of $he application. Ifir Baume said that the Tyailii Company had instituted proceeding* to obtain possession of the site for which the hotel -was first granted. The applicant had obtained a new site, to which Mr Barry had no objection. The new site was about ten chains away from the old one. With respect to the plan of the building, the Committee had objected at the last mccV ing that some of the rpoms were toti ■ jnall. Qn the amended. plan there

were more bedrooms than on the original plan, and the size of the rooms was much largei. The cost_of the building, with necessary «g£ayations, would come up to £3,700, so it would be a good hotel for the district, '

Mr Cock said he had been requested by a number of his constituents to make a protest against this. license being granted, and he would now do so. The license had been granted under conditions that had not %ee\i fulfilled. At the last meeting he had reluctantly acquiesced in the granting of the license through sympathy with the applicant, but since then certain revelations had been made, and he found that the applicant had very little interest in the matter. Granting this application had been an injustice to those others whose applications were in before this one. It was an injustice to the people of "Waihi, as they did not want the licenne. He would ask Messrs Gavin, Moore and Taylor by what authority the site of hotel was altered ? He (the speaker) had the highest authority for saying that the granting of the license was an evasion of the law and a travesty of justice. Mr Seddon had said that it was an evasion of the law, and that he would have no more of it.

*' Mr Baume said that -no doubt Mr (Jock had been'actuated by proper motives in speaking as he had done, but there had been no evasion of the law. It was quite possible Mr Seddon had said the Act did not contemplate this method of obtaining a license, but Mr Seddon was not a lawyer. A similar method of obtaining licenses had been adopted in other places, and had nut been appealed against. But the application at .present before the Committee was an application to remove a license to a place specially mentioned by the Act, a distance of less than a quarter of a mile.. The Committee was sitting to decide an application that was made that day, and not one that had been dealt with before. This was an application to remova a Waihi license, to another house loss than a quarter of a mile away. There wajs no objection lodged by residents of VVaihi,' and this was proof that objection to the removal was not particularly strong. Mr Cock (to the Chairman): May 1 reply ? The Chairman; I do not think members should go into side issues, Mr Cock; Thjs Ucense was granted under conditions., and these conditions have not been fulfilled. . ' / Mr Baume i There is a plaint for resumption of the old section. The Chairman (to Mr Baume): Where do you propose taking^jthe license? ' *""''■ Mr Baume: There is a building on the new site, and it will form part of the new hotel. After a little more discussion, the application for removal of the license was granted, Mr Cock voting against it. The meeting closed with a vote of thanks to the Chairman. 5