CHANGING HOTEL LICENSES
DISTANCE BAN PLACED BY LAWAMENDMENT SUGGESTED. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Gisborne, Last Night The Public Works Department has notified that the Opotiki County Council will be expected to take over the new highway from Matawai via Waioeka to Opotiki in September. When the matter was mentioned at the Bay of Plenty Licensing Committee meeting to-day comment was made that soon the present route via Motu would be no longer need; consequently the Motu Hotel, considered one of the finest on the East Coast, would be more useful at Matawai, nine miles nearer Gisborne. The law, however, restricted the removal of an hotel license in the country more than one mile.
The committee unanimously decided that it be a recommendation for consideration by the proper authorities thgt the necessary amendments be made in the Licensing Act to authorise a licensin'? committee to permit the removal of’any class of license granted in respect of premises within its district to any other premises in the district without restriction as to distance.
The police inspector and the magistrate spoke in support of the recommendation.
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Taranaki Daily News, 20 June 1931, Page 7
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