CRITERION HOTEL.
THE COMMITTEE'S FINDING. Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, September 18. The enquiry by the Christchurch Licensing Committee into tli-a allegations concerning the control and conduct of the new Criterion Hotel was concluded today. Mrs Gr-e-an, in her evidence to-day, d-r.nkd that the house was conducted in an improper manner. Counsel for Manning and Co., holders of a -mortgage for £B6OO over the property, urged that they ais innocent parties should not be penalised in tli-a- t-vent of an adverse finding, and that an opportunity should be given the licensee to sell out so that the. mortgagees might be protected. '".p
The Committee retired .asider their finding, and on returichairman made the following statement: — " The Committee are unanimously of the opinion that the house has been improperly conducted, and that neither Mr Green ncr Mrs Green are fit and propel persons to hava the conduct of a licensed house. As the outcome of that ' decision, they are not prepared at this moment to say what their action will be, but' will adjourn these sittings for- seven days to tnable the.-Bench to consider the position, of the innocent parties." :
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Timaru Herald, Volume XIC, Issue 13395, 19 September 1907, Page 5
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188CRITERION HOTEL. Timaru Herald, Volume XIC, Issue 13395, 19 September 1907, Page 5
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