LICENSING COURT.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1999, 1 June 1875, Page 2

LICENSING COURT.

The quarterly and annual licensing meeting for the Districts of Thames and Hauraki was held at noon to-day, in the Court House, Shortland, before Captain Fraser, R.M., Chairman, aad John Brown, M.P.C., R. Kennan and R. Workman, Commissioners. The cases to which objections were taken were brought on first, and were heard in order as follows :— HAZBLBANK HOTEL. The police reported that seamen were harbored and detained in this house. The report also contained the rider of a jury which Fat upon the body of a bush/ man who died in the house. Mr Tyler appeared for the applicant, and said as to harboring seamen that the defendant could only deny it in tofco. He kept a" room for sailors always unlocked, from which they could go to their ships when, and at whatever hour they chose. As to the rider of the jury, he could prove that theman who died in the house had died from injuries received ?at the Miranda, and had entered the house on Sunday night and died on Monday afternoon, during which time he had only had in.the house a few glasses of whisky, thus showing that not only had he not received a lot of liquor in the house, but that the inference was untrue as to his having obtained bad liquor there. The Chairman stated that the Commissioners did not wish to deprive a man of a means of obtaining a livelihood. The present:; case \ bad already been well ventilated, tbV inquest' having been reported in the papers, and supposing anything improper to have occurred in connection with the conduct of the case, he hoped this would act as a caution to applicant. : The application was granted, r '■■ ' EUROPEAN HOTEL. : Mr Tyler' appeared for applicant, Catherine M'Carty. : The police report stated 1 that: applicant had conducted the house since July, 1874, and had never given cause for complaint^ but she was a single woman, and it was deemed imprudent that a single woman, living alone, with other young women should keep a public house, as they had not sufficient control over drunken men, who would/be likely to take advantage of them. ■ „ Mr Tyler said this was an entirely new objection,, and he submitted that the Commissioners would do a great injustice, by rafusine the .license solely on those grounds. Mr Tyler then proceeded to remark upon the general principle of debarring single women from engaging in the public house business. He tnougbjb; it monstrous that a disability rhpttld be forced upon women because ;of their sex. Female labor was not too plentiful, and; he could nofesee why they should not. seekemployment in.; the keeping of a publichouse. Such labor should be encouraged. Moreover, the Act plainly showed that it was contemplated that there should be female licensees. ; ; ; /. ■

The Chairman said from his experience of such things he had always found that men would pay more attention to what women said than any one else. And; this applied to the most rowdy communities, where he had always found houses kept by 'women to be the most clean and orderly. : i :,.::■. ;■.; ; ; ; After some further discussion the Chairman said this Commissioners had decided not to refuse the license, as applicant had conducted the house previously, but they did not of single women keeping public-houses, and one Commissioner (Mr Brown) said he would vote against granting a license to any other applicant. , , . JETTY HOTEL. ' Mr Tyler appeared for applicant, John Regan. The objection was the same as; in the case of the Hazelbank, the additional information being afforded that an impudent robbery had been committed in the house, on which occasion suspicion had [ pointed to an inmate of the house. Mr Tyler addressed the Bench on behalf of his client. The Chairman stated that as there was no evidence of any harboring or detaining of seamen, the license would be granted. GEOBGE HOTEL. Mr Tyler for „ applicant, Richard Richards. Objection—A reputation for rowdy and disorderly conduct;' ■/..':;.'[. This, is the house in which the row between,; Harris and McLean occurred some little time since. His "Worshipi read a letter from, Mrs Richards, in which she regretted the above circumstance and hoped it would be over-; looked, as she had been unable to prevent it, her husband being in bed. Mr Tyler said.Mr Richards was subject to,: apoplectic fits, and was ill? at present. Application granted, to the condition that Mrs Richards assumed larger control in the management of the house. GLOBE. HOTEL. Fanny Burne was the applicant, fur whom Mr Tyler appeared, and the same objection was lodged by the police as in the case of Catherine McCarthy. Applicant was a single woman. . ■: Mr Tyler addressed the Commissioners at some length. The case was .adjourned till the 14th. to enable applicant to procure a substitute. There was another application for the same house by George Carson. It was also adjourned. ....... , ..... ,• .. •> : • ■i-/SIMIIiAB^CASE3." ■■' <-■■ ■■'■■>■':-■ ,' Selina Taprell applied for a license for the Albion Hotel, Grahamstown. Mr Ehrenfred said the woman was married with a family, arid had kept a house in Auckland. Adjourned to satisfy the Court. Annie Zeigler was granted a renewal, being a married woman, and having an order of protection. STAR HOTEL. • This application, by C. G. Ahier, ;was adjourned to 14th. . ■"■[ TEANSFERS. There was no objection to the several