LICENSING COMMITTEES

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 114, 18 May 1942, Page 4

LICENSING COMMITTEES

ANNUAL MEETINGS NEXT MONTH Licensing committees, which control hotels, hold tneir annual meetings tnroughout the Dominion in June eaen year. The Wanganui ana Waimarino licensing committees will hold their annual meetings on June 4, the Waimarino Committee sitting in Taihape. The Rangitikei Licensing Committee wil Isit in Marton on June 1, and the Patea Committee in Hawera on June 10. Elections for licensing committees are held on the second Tuesday following a licensing poll. A licensing committee is elected for every licensing district, and consists of the magistrate exercising jurisdiction in the district. who is chairman, and live other persons. The committees sit quarterly and deal with transfers of licences, new licences, renewals, wine licences, and wholesale licences. Before annual meetings an inspection of all hotels is ma.de by the police and an officer oi the Department of Health, and reports are furnished on the conduct of the hotels by the police. Usually when structural alterations are required to licensed premises and the work has not been started before the annual meeting, an undertaking is given by the interested parties that file work will be carried out and the renewal or transfer of the licence is granted conditionally.