WAIAPU LICENSING MEETING

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XIV, Issue 852, 5 July 1906, Page 21

WAIAPU LICENSING MEETING

At Gisborne last Friday, at the adjourned meeting of the Waiapu Licensing Committee, it was insisted that there must be a new licensee for one country hotel, and three months’ adjournment was allowed to permit of some other person applying. The chairman said the committee would

have refused the license, owing to the unclean condition in which the hotel had been found. Adjourned applications were further deferred to enable the completion of improvements insisted on. A large petition and counter-petition were received regarding Te Rahui Hotel, Waiapu, which the police had reported to be unnecessary. The chairman said the committee were satisfied as to the accommodation provided, and it was useless to take evidence, because, even if they concluded that the house was not required they had no power to refuse the license on that ground. Conditional licenses for the races this week and for the stock sales were refused, the police reporting adversely in each case.