NELSON LICENSING COMMITTEE.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14667, 22 March 1918, Page 6

NELSON LICENSING COMMITTEE.

QUARTERLY MEETING.

The quarterly meeting of the Nelsoai licensing Committee was held jester-^ <iay afternoon. There were present; Messrs P. Best, J. E. Bartlett, E. '■ Oann, T. Edwards, and T. Pettit. j In the absence of Mr Loughnan, S.M., the chairman, Mr Best was elect-! cd chairman. j 33r G. J. .Harley applied for .a ;per-; raariont transfer of the license of the . H^ k. .Horsy Hotel;/Wak^xzafca-^rom Wilfrid Ernest Thomas to Mizafeetk Monigatti, a temporary transfer aaving ■-"trt'evibusly been graaxted. , j Mr Pettit asked the committee fo' consider whether a license .should be' granted to a woman in any other cii-' ci.mstanees than those of a widow whose ' husband hud died while ho. wag the holder of a. license. In such case AirPettit thought it would bo ricrht to: grant the license if the report "was fa-! but he thought that it waa: the intention of the Act that iirensp-s.--should not be granted to women except in exceptional circumstances. Jn the jpar.ticular case before- the .committee ? thp house was a wayside one'used :by* travellers, and should be kept under the hest conditions. Unfortunately such j houses usually were not, and were tie1; .isort of place vyheie a man appeared, Secessary. j ■ In renty to a question rrc-ir. the'com-, .niitteo it-, was stated that tho-applicant xyas a married woman with a reparation Order against her husbni. i • Sergeant Barrett said eha1- under tl'« Destitute Persons Act th-iro wjs '{n-cial ■iprovision i'or women situated as was *«•» applicant and for divorced women to hold licenses. Mrs Monigatti had hoUi a licen.se fc< many years at >Y'o3tport> and the polico report from there ivius very favourable. On th 9 motion of Messrs Oann and ftdwards tlie-transfer was £ranted J Mr Pettit disaentnig. On the application of Mr Hariey tt'intransfers were made absolute as fallows.:—-"White Hart Hotel, JRw^incnd J. D. H. Ewera to David N?rini<;eour: and Masonic -Hotel, Nelson, Robert A. Scott to Henry Baigent. Mr Harley, on behalf of all iho c;ty feotels except the .Trafalgar and ItoSincial Hotels, applied vind^r section 100 Ktf the Licensing Act to have exempiion granted from keeping street lights purning. Mr-Harley said ibat the streets were Pttfficiently well.lighted, aud the liickers ficom the hotel lights would r.ot make any appreciable differ ice in any caw; further, that since six u'clock closiig came in force they caußcl a gowi doal (of trouble to cne I'wnsee and some as pense. There would not be any disadvantage to tha public if tho request ITJis granted. Sergeant Barrett sail that the pojioe liad no objection to oifer so tar .%a the city hotels were roncenied. It would be a different china: in tho case of country hotels. On the motion of Mr Edwards, seconded by Mr Bartlett, it was resoired to grant the request, to have effect till the annual meeting, when the matter jwould come under review again. In answer to a question, Mr Hariey said that he understood that the BeenBee of the Trafalgar Hotel did not care one wa.v or the other, and the licensee of the Provincial Holel objected to the proposal. Neither signed the petition.