Trade Topics

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XIV, Issue 822, 7 December 1905, Page 23

Trade Topics

No meeting of the Waitemata Licensing Committee was held last Friday, there being no business to conduct.

The quarterly meeting of the Parnell Tlicensing Committee has been adjourned to next Saturday morning at 11 a.m. • • • -.

The quarterly meeting of the Ohinemuri Tlicensing Committee, which was to have been held yesterday, was adjourned until to-day.

The beer duty paid in Auckland last month amounted to £1854 14s 6d.

At the Police Court, Waverly, recently, Mr McKenzie, licensee of the Waitotara Hotel, was fined £2O and costs for supplying liquor to an intoxicated native at the Waverly races, and the license ordered to be endorsed. The barman was fined £lO and costs on a similar charge. Notice of appeal was given.

A Home Trade Journal states that in England and Wales there are 6462 clubs competing unfairly with the members of the Trade.

The will of the late Mr Jacques R. M. Hennessey, of Messrs James Hennessey and Co., of Cognac, has been proved at £59,880.

James R. Whitelaw, a prohibited person, was fined £2 with costs last Friday for having entered a licensed booth at the Ellerslie Racecourse.

At an open-air meeting conducted by Mrs Harrison-Lee, at Whangarei, an old man named William Smith, aged 79, suddenly sank to the ground and expired.

A disastrous fire occurred last Thursday in Taree, New South Wales, a block of six shops and a large hotel being destroyed. The damage is estimated at £20,000.

Last Thursday the New South Wales Liquor Bill passed in the Legislative Council the Committee stages without material amendment. Tt is probable that several clauses will be recommitted in the Assembly.

Mr Enoch Burden, for many years a member of the Manukau Licensing Committee, died at his residence in Onehunga on the 28th ult.

Kennington private hotel, at Invercargill, was destroyed by fire early last week.

Imports of Australian wines into the the United Kingdom for the first nine months of this year totalled 618,896 gallons, against 471,974 gallons for the corresponding period of last year, an increase of 146,922 gallons.

Germany is increasing the duty on tobacco and beer.

In the Paeroa Police Court last week, James Henry Rogers pleaded guilty to a charge of theft of various articles from Mr Ralph Montgomery’s Waikino Hotel. Prisoner was sentenced to two months’ imprisonment in Mount Eden gaol.