MOTU HOTEL BILL
DISCUSSION IN COUNCIL SECOND READING PASSED (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. The Bay of Plenty Licensing Committee Empowering Bill was read a second time ill the Legislative Council yesterday.
In moving the second reading, the. lion. W. H. Mclntyre said that the bill provided for the transfer of a hotel license further than the statutory distance. The reason for the request was that owing to the diversion of a road the present hotel site was inconvenient to the travelling public. There were no objections in the district to the bill. The lion. Colonel W. E. Smith asked whether the bill gave the Licensing Committee power to shift the license of any hotel in the, district. If that was so, the power sought was very far-reaching. He wanted to know whether Mr. McIntyre would accept an amendment limiting the transfer to the one particular hotel, or subject any transfer to the consent of the Minister of Internal Affairs.
Tn reply, Mr. Mclntyre said that as far as he knew there was no other hotel affected by the bill. Unless a main highway had been diverted before the passing of the bill, the Licensing Committee had no power to transfer a license more than one mile.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18265, 7 December 1933, Page 7
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