LICENSING COMMITTEES.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 10967, 5 June 1903, Page 6

LICENSING COMMITTEES.

Tha Knotty Point at Newtown. (Per United Press Association.'* •• -' • 1 WELLINGTON, June 5. At the sitting of the Newtown Licensing Committee to-day, Mr Atkinson; on behalf of a large number of petitioners, claimed that' the Committee had no right to issue licenses. Argument is proceeding. • • GISBORNE, June 5. The Licensing Cdmmittee reduced the hour t>£- closing- from 11 to 10. An additional wholesale license was granted to L. D. Nathan, Auckland.'THAMES, June 5. At a meeting "of the Licensing Committee lo^ay all renewals in the Thames were granted. Several Coromandel applications were adjourned owing to repairs not being completed. A new license was granted for the hotel at Cabbage Bay. v WELLINGTON, June 5. • The Newtown, Licensing -Committee adjourned till' "3 '.'o^lbck to consider -a point raised as ta\4Hietlrer the Committee has jurisdiction': to '-issue licenses. I NEW PLYMOUTH, June 5. The < annual of ■ the Taranaki Licensing Committee was- held this morning. All licenses were renewed. With regard to th§ Hotel Common wealth, New Plymouth, sp^cialconditions were imposed that a banned stibuld not be employed, and that the 1 hotel must be closed at 10 o'clock. The?; question of extending the. closing hour -till 11 for the other town houses was Teserved till the afternoon.' -- : " Later. The Licensing' Committee refused all'applications few an 1 extension to 11 o'clock.