OHINEMURI LICENSES.

Waikato Times, Volume 100, Issue 16834, 28 June 1926, Page 6

OHINEMURI LICENSES.

ISSUE OF RESTRAINT WRITS

ACTION IN SUPREME COURT.

The adjourned annual meeting of the Ohinemurl Licensing Committee will be held at Paeroa to-day when applications for licenses will be considered.

In the case of applications relating to the Paeroa Hotel, Paeroa, the Kerepeehi Hotel, Kcrcpechi, and the Golden Cross. Hotel, Wain I, the committee will be unable to act, a writ, of prohibition and certiorari having been issued by the Supreme Court on Saturday. The application was made by Mr 11. L. Cooney, counsel for Mrs Mary Blackley Montgomery, whose application for a license for the Waitoa Hotel was refused by the committee at its last sitting on June 18. An order was also made by the Supreme Court on Saturday for a rule nisi to bring up and quasti the refusal of the committee to grant a license to Mrs Mongomcry. The grounds of the application were allegations that two members of the Licensing Committee were working on hotels belonging to other applicants for licenses, or their nominees, and by reason of that fact were interested in the proceedings and thereby disqualified from sitting on the Bench.

It was also alleged that a member of the Licensing Bench had pledged himself prior to the sitting of the committee to vote against the Waitoa application, and that he had taken an active part in opposing the application prior to it coming before the committee.

It was also alleged that although Mrs Montgomery had a preferential claim to a license the Waitoa license was refused and the applications of at least two other persons whose claims had been non-preferential had been granted.

TO BE HEARD ON FRIDAY.

AUCKLAND, Monday

In the Supreme Court this morning Mr Justice Stringer was asked for an immediate hearing of two writs of prohibition issued against the granting of licenses in the Ohincmuri district.

Counsel said a writ of prohibition and certiorari had been issued against their clients and the matter was of great imporance, so that the committee in Paeroa could get on with its work.

His Honor agreed to hear the action on Friday morning.