CORRESPONDENCE. THE CAMBRIDGE WEST HOTEL.

Waikato Times, Volume XVI, Issue 1358, 15 March 1881, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE.

THE CAMBRIDGE WEST HOTEL.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—l "Wish to lay the following case before your readers :—": —" Some months ago I built in Cambridge West a large and commodious house, "with the intention of applying to the local Licensing Bench for a publicans' license therefor. Last December I so applied, and my application was refused on the ground that the re* quirementa of the district did not warrant the granting of the license applied for. Between December and the last sitting of the Court a public meeting was held in Cambridge West. This meeting upwards of 30 people attended, out of which on a show of hands only 12 recorded their vofces. At this meeting Mr Morris, the secretary of the Cambridge Total Abstinence Society, took upon himself to make a speech. In the course of this speech he distinctly declared that his opposition to my application was not in any way fomented by the publicans of Cambridge East. On the 3rd inst. Mr Raynes made an application to the Cambridge Licensing Bench, the result of which (and of the extraordinary letter then r«ad) your readers are through your columns well aware. On Tuesday evening last a meeting of the society to which Mr Morris belongs was held. At that meeting Mr Morris stated that as Mr Kirkwood had materially aided the committee in the past he thought bis support might still have been relied upon. Had Mr Morris gone a little further and stated that for some months past Mr Kirkwood had aided him, not only with adrice, but also with money in opposing my application ; and at the same time reconciled this with the statement made by him at the meeting before alluded to, re the supposed alliance between some of the publicans in Cambridge East and his society, it might perhaps have proved more satisfactory to the public in general. Ihe result of the combined action of Messrs Kirkwood and Morris now ends in the following resolution, carried at the before mentioned meeting of the society with which Mr Kirkwood ami a very small minority of his brother publicans, so evidently record their sympathy. In substance, that the aforesaid society hereby resolves upon the appointment of a Vigilance sub-Committee, for the purpose of setting a. watch upon the actions of their sympathising friends, Messrs Kirkwood and others, with the kind intention of bringing them within the lash of the law as soon as ever they conveniently can. I congratulate the gentlemen to whom the society intends to extend their tender treatment and beg to sign myself. —Yours, &c, W. F, Midigan. Cambridge, March 9th, 1881.

TO THE BDITOB. Sib, — May I as one of the inhabitants of the Tamahere district beg sufficient of your space to remark that the completion of the road from the Narrows Bridge, passed the Tatnahere Hotel, to Te Aroha or the Swamp Company's gate, would be a wonderful boon to the residents in the whole district, and more especially to the Waipa settlers. It has been proceeded with and would if finished, save quite seven miles on the road to the goldfields; instead of having to go to Steele's corner, besides increasing the traffic on our Narrows Road considerably. If the promised work is to be done it should be undertaken at once while the summer lasts and not wait till winter, before the completion, and I humbly venture to think that the Tamahere and Cambridge Road Boards should combine to push forward the work in which both are so much interested. — Yours, &c, Tamahere. Tamahere, March 13th, 1881.