CHALMERS LICENSING COMMITTEE.

Otago Witness, Issue 3195, 9 June 1915, Page 59

CHALMERS LICENSING COMMITTEE.

The annual meeting of the Chalmers Licensing Committee was held at Port Chalmers on Friday, and was attended by Messrs H. Y. Widdowson, S.M. (chairman), D. M. Mawson, R. Ferrier, J. Dicker, and G. L. Asher. The following transfers and renewals were applied for:— R. J. Watts, permanent transfer to James M'Cluskey, Portobello Hotel, Portobollo; J. M'Cluskey, publican’s license for Portobello Hotel; J. D. Warden, publican’s license for Port Chalmers Hotel; E. E. Hill-Rowe, publican’s license for Shiel Hill Hotel; N. Macdonald, renewal publican’s license, George Hotel; A. M. M'Robie, renewal publican’s license. Railway Hotel, Mosgiel; E. M'Kewen. renewal publican’s license, Marine Hotel: Ellen Mackio, renewal publican’s license. Crescent Hotel; E. Godfred, renewal publican’s license. Chick’s Hotel; D. M'Kenzie. renewal publican’s license. Provincial Hotel; J. Matheson, renewal publican’s license for Mosgiel Hotel, Mosgiel; Amos M'Kcgg, renewal publican’s license, White House Hotel, Henley. After a permanent transfer of the license of the Portobello Hotel from Mr R. J. Watts to James M'Cluskey had been granted the chairman announced that the district health authorities had inspected the hotels, and had reports on matters not mentioned in the police report. The police report stated that all the hotels in the district had been well conducted. Several small matters had been reported on in all the hotels except the Shiel Hill Hotel, the license of which would be granted without further delay. In respect to the health report, the committee had visited one of the Port Chalmers hotels that morning, and found that the matters mentioned’in the report did exist. Therefore the committee hod decided to postpone for a fortnight the granting of all the other licenses in the district, in order that the committee might have time to go round and inspect the hotels. ’The remaining applications were adjourned accordingly.