LICENSING COMMITTEE MEETINGS.

West Coast Times, Issue 13232, 8 June 1904, Page 3

LICENSING COMMITTEE MEETINGS.

New Plymouth, June 7

The annual meeting of the Taranaki Licensing Committee was held to day. All licenses were renewed except the Taranaki Hotel, Commonwealth and Moturoa, which were deferred ull the afternoon. '

The police reports were favourable in the case of the two latter, but in regard

fo the Tarai a • i v a vlujugu rm.re disoretion should be used in the conduct of the house. Applications for extension to eleven o'clock in the case of the town hotels was also deferred to the afternoon-

A packet license was granted to the Northern s.s. Coy's Rarawa and a new wholesale license was granted to L D Nathan & Co, The committee passed a resolution directing the attention of publicans to the law regnrding the supply of liquor to aboriginals.

Dunedin, June 7

At the annual Licensing Committee meeting all applications for Taieri were granted save two. In the case of George Mogarian Lee, Stream Hotel, the a >plication was idjjurned for three months to enable the property to be sold, as the applicant gave way to temptation. The application for the Coach and Horses was also adjourned, the building which was recently destroyed by fire not being completed. Eleven o'clock licenses were granted in Mosgill.

At the Mount ida licensing meeting interest was taken in the five new applications for licenses in tho t )wnships of Manuherika, Lauder and O,jhir, abouc the present terminus of the Otigo Central Eailway. In the case of the Ophir Railway Hotel, the Manuherihia police object ed as the building was not in exittencd when the application was made, but as no notice of objection had^ been given the committee, which {consisted of Mr Ennis, S.M and two members (two others having rendered their seats vacant through nonattendance), decided to grant the license, and the application in respect to the Wharekuri Hotel was withdiawn. After luncheon the committee proceeded to deal with the three new applications for licenses at Ophir. After legol argument and a statement by a constable that there was not room for th?ee hotels, the Chair" man said the Committee had decided to adopt free trade principles and grant all the three licenses. Applications for licenses for hot li ab Ha'vea .Flat, Blackstjne Hill, and Ida Valley were withdrawn.