District Hotels.

Thames Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 18599, 7 September 1932, Page 2

District Hotels.

WAIHI PROPOSAL REJECTED. THAMES LICENSING COMMITTEE, The Thames Licensing Committee met at noon yesterday, there being present Messrs F. W. Platts,, S.M. (chairman), J. Towers, W. M. VVa.lnutt, T. W. Rhodes and W. H. Lucas. Leave of absence was gi anted Mr J. McCormick. Uoromandel Repairs. Tne police reports on the hotels of tne district were favourable, except for the Star and Garter Hotel, Coromandel, wnere certain repairs were urgently required. Counsel for the licensee said that these were being undertaken by the licensee, but some of the liability rested on the owner. , Sergeant Macnamara said leaks in the roof were particularly bad. Counsel in reply said all leaks had been repaired. The Bench asked that the other repairs be done forthwith. Junction Hotel. A report on the Junction Hotel, Thames, was put in. Counsel said the present licensee knew nothing about after-hour trading. Sergeant Macnamara said that people were able to get into the hotel after hours. The Committee noticed with regret the conviction for after-hour trading.

Proposal Not Approved

J. W. McDonald, licensee of the Commercial Hotel, Waihi, wrote stating that owing to ill-health he had been unable to attend to his business properly and asked the Committee to allow him to put a manager in to look after the dining rooms, etq.

The police objected to portion of these same premises being leased to an auctioneer, unless the door communicating with the hotel was properly closed up. Sergeant Macnamara said that the auctioneer had applied to the .Sergeant at Waihi for permission to rent the room and he had referred him to the Licensing Committee. Three was a bolt on the door, but if the room was to be used as an

auction room, then the result might be very upsetting to the licensee. The Committee said it was quite against the spirit of the Act that a licensee should lose control of any portion of his premises and it did not approve of the proposal. The matter of a manager rested with the licensee.

Kopu Hotel

The Committee thought that a proper approach either in gravel or tar seal should be constructed to the new Kopu Hotel and that the requirements of the Health Deparment be complied with.