LICENSING

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXIV, Issue 12793, 11 June 1909, Page 7

LICENSING

Ashburton

(Per United Press Association). ASHBURTON, June 11.

At the meeting of the Ashburton. Licensing Committee to-day, applications were received for general licenses for six hotels, viz., at Geraldine, Orari, Rangatata, and Arur.del, which previously were in the Geraldine electorate, but which, owing to alteration of electoral boundaries, are now in Ashburton district. Mr Raymond appeared for the applicants, and argued at length in support of the applications. The Committee, after retiring, held that, under sections 8 and 38 of the Licensing Act, read together, they had no power to grant the licenses.