LICENSING.

Colonist, Volume XLVIII, Issue 11677, 12 July 1906, Page 4

LICENSING.

Dunedin, July 11. The Waikauaiti Licensing Committee declined an application for an accommodation license for the Waianakarua Hotel. The hotel was one selected to give effect to the reduction vote, but od application to Mr Justice Cooper, he decided that accommodation licenses were not subject to the reduction vote. The Committee then, on its own motion, formulated objections to granting the licenses, the principal ground being that the house was not kept up to standard. After hearing counsel and evidence showing that the house was in every way satisfactory, the Committee retired, and then raised a new objection— thatr^the house was within five miles of another house at Hampden, and declined tbe application,counsel notifying that he would

apply to the Supreme Court for a mandamus. The chairman-, Majoi Keddell, did not agiree with the decision of the elected members.