HOTEL LICENSE

Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19945, 23 July 1936, Page 3

HOTEL LICENSE

REQUEST FROM MATAMATA i i PETITION TO PARLIAMENT. i t . i i.\'L.lil£.-\SE l.\ POPULATION- ] (By Telegraph—Special to Times.) WELLINGTON, Wednesday. Special legislation authorising the issue of a hotel license or licenses to IMulamnta is sought in a largely signed .pniition presented to Parliament LU—‘m; ivy Mr A. F. .\loncur i-Government i—llolorua) on behalf of the ratepayers {and citizens 01' .\latamata. 'l‘he petitioners state that for many [ years Matamata has been seriously retarded in its growth by the absence lot a: licensed hotel. Sixteen years ago, said the petitioners, the Taul'al‘igd Licensing Committee was evenly di< \'ided us to the necessity for licensed lpreinises in .\lutainata. in order to lohtuin such license, licensed premises were purchased at Maketu and :lliluwt‘i’] to lapse. No l'resh license had i been granted.- | The petitioners quoted a section oi ‘HIC Licensing; Act which provides in (c. 1305 or increase. of population in a i county or road district for the granting. [of a iieeuse'ait the rate of one licensed mouse to every 700 persons residing within a radius of two miles from such lirensed house. They contended that it necessarily followed that it was still more desirable that soon authority should exist in the case of an increase of population ot a former county district. Petitioners said they knew of no other instance in New Zeuland in which i sm-h an increase in population had Oc-J curred in a licensing district resulting; in the formation of a borough with no licensed house. I