HOTEL ENTRANCES.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XIV, Issue 849, 14 June 1906, Page 20

HOTEL ENTRANCES.

When the question of renewing licenses for hotel premises came before the annual meeting of the Licensing Committee last week, the Chairman, Mr. R. W. Dyer, S.M., drew attention to clause 38 of the Licensing Act, which provides that each hotel must have a private entrance apart from the rooms where liquors are sold. Mr. Dyer stated that the Committee intended to enforce this cindition, considering it a perfectly reasonable one, intended to provide an entrance for women and children lodgers, apart from the bars. The Committee were disposed to adjourn all applications to give the applicants time to comply with the provisions. Mr. J. R. Reel said that the Campbell and Ehrenfried Company were prepared to do everything necessary to bring their premises within the Act. He pointed out that it would be very unsatisfactory for owners if licenses were to be held over. The present position had been existent for years, and no question had arisen. Extensive alterations would be required in some places, and where a firm owned about 30 hotels, there would be a difficulty in getting the men. He suggested that the licenses be renewed subject to a condition that necessary alterations be effected, and the committee would then have power to cancel the license at the quarterly meeting if the conditions were not carried out. Sub-Inspector Gordon said that some

of the alterations would take a considerable time, structural alterations being necessary in some cases. The Chairman said that the condition would be endorsed on the licenses which, on this condition, would be issued. This was carried out, the condition being endorsed on a large number of licenses.