KAIPARA LICENSING COMMITTEE.

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

KAIPARA LICENSING COMMITTEE.

The Kaipara Licensing Committee sat at Dargaville last week, there being present: Messrs. Dyer, S.M., (chairman), F. F. Day, J. Trounson, E. F. Field, L. B. Marriner, and Thos. Bassett. Renewals were granted to all the 12 hotels in the district. Certain improvements are to be effected. Packet licenses were granted to the Awaroa, Aotea, Wairoa, Baroona, and Kawau. Application for a wholesale license by Mr. Whittaker, Aratapu, caused some interest, the prohibitionists opposing it. They presented a petition with 500 signatures against it. Mr. Coates appeared for the ap plicant (Mr. Whittaker), and presented a petition in support. The magistrate asked if they could grant the application as involving an increase in the number of licenses. Mr. Coates quoted the Supreme Court decision that wholesale licenses were excluded. He opposed the prohibition petition as not having been filed • for seven days. The petition was not admitted. The committee unanimously decided that the license was not required.