PROPOSED TRANSFER OF LICENSE.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 16762, 11 June 1920, Page 2

PROPOSED TRANSFER OF LICENSE.

A LIVELY DISCUSSION. Per Press Association. TAURANGA, June 11. At the annual meeting of the Tauranga Licensing Committee to-day, application was made and granted for the renewal of an accommodation license at Maketu. An application was also mad® for an accommodation license at Matamata, where no license now exists. Mr. H. A. Sharp, representing the applicant (Mr. A. Montgomery), applied to have the application adjourned till July. Tho intention, he said, was not to pay the fee for the Maketu licneso, thus allowing it to lapse. The license then being available, application would bo made to grant it at Matamata.

The application was opposed by tho police. Mr. Black, the boarding-house keeper at Matamata, the Glaxo factory, and several other petitioners. Mr. Richmond, appearing for Black, described tho application for the adjournment as a pi :ce of legal trickery and strongly opposed granting it. After a lengthy legal argument tho committee decided to • grant the adjournment, in order that the full committee could deal with the matter, one member being absent to-day.