WAIKOUAITI.

Otago Witness, Issue 2103, 14 June 1894, Page 19

WAIKOUAITI.

A meeting of the Waikouaiti Licensing Committee was held yesterday, when all applications for renewals wera granted. Hawera, June 8. At the meeting of the Patea Licensing Bench all applications for renewals of publicans' and accommodation licenses were granted. Extensions to 11 p.m. were granted to hotels in Patea and Han era. Palmeeston North, June 8. At the annual meeting of the Palmerston Licensing Committee all applications for renewals were granted, but in almost every case conditions as to improvement and renovations were imposed. In the application of George Blackbee for tho Avondale Hotel and Edwin Fisher for the Commercial Hotel, both in the Palmerston Borough, the committee declined to grant the proposed transfers for personal reasons. Eleven o'clock extensions were granted in cases of hotels in the square only. At the conclusion the chairman called the attention of the police to the necessity for better inspection, and more active means being taken to suppress selling af ber hours. The committee had made a personal inspection of the licensed premises in the district, and the improvements required were based on the reports thus obtained. Masterton, June 9. The Licensing Committee granted all licenses to 10 o'clock, and ordered that the Star Hotel change hands within three months, and that the Club Hotel premises, Pahiatua, be closed before tho next granting meeting. Wellington, June 7. The Otaki Licensing Committee granted all renewals with the exception of three — viz., Laug's, at Sandon ; Broadbent's, at Shannon ; and Dixon's, at Otaki. The decisions in these cases were adjourned to allow of certain improvements being effected iv the buildings. Feilding, June 7. The Marton-Rangitikei Licensing Committee granted all renewals, and warned the publicans against breaches of the act. Nelson, June 7. At the City licensing meeting to-day all existing licenses were renewed, the reports being favourable, but some minor repairs were ordered in certain cases. Eleven o'clock extensions were granted in town and where applied for at Richmond and Brightwater for the convenience of train passengers. An application for an accommodation house at Wangamoa was adjourned till to-morrow, some doubt existing as to the power of granting the same. Westport, June 8. Tho Boiler Licensing Committee granted all applications for renewals of publicans', accommodation, and bottle licenses. They also granted 11 o'clock licenses wherever applied for. Christchurch, June 7. The Lyttelton Licensing Committee to-day gave notice of its intention to refuse licenses to the Railway, Cambridge, and Crown Hotels. All the other applications were granted. Extension till 11 o'clock was granted to hotels in the town of Lyttelton only. June 8. The Riccarbon Licensing Committee granted all applications for renewals, but refused extensions to 11 p.m. Juno 9. At tho meeting of the Avon Licensing Committee to-day all licenses were granted excepting the Bower and Courtenay Arms Hotels, which were adjourned till the 23rd, when the committee will select oue house to be closed. An application for a wine license was refused. Ashhurton, June 7. At the licensing meeting held to-day the committee renewed all existing licenaes and granted all transfers* aaked for, but decided that all houses must be closed at 10 o'clock. Oamaru, June 11. The Licensing Committee met to-day Bnd still further reduced the licenses by three, making five in all. The hotels closed are the Enfield, North Town Belt, Commercial, Northern, and Medora. Three of these are in Oamaru and two in the country. Invercargill, June 7. The Invercargill Licensing Committee held its adjourned meeting to-day to hear partits for their interests iv the seven houses for which licenses were previously refused. Very strong evidence of the usefulness of three — Prince of Wales, Union, and Supreme Court Hotels — was given and was supported by petitions. Two of the applicants did nob appear, buu the committee have received notice that a maudamus to compel thpm to issue a license to one of these — the Stag's Head — will be sought from the Supreme Court next week. The committee, after hearing counsel tor applicants, retired for half an hour, but they were an hour and a-half in conclave, and then returned to announce that the meeting was further adjourned till the 18th inst. It is popularly supposed that the intention is to ascertain what the Supreme Court will do in the matter of the mandamus before coming to a decision on any of the applications.