AUCKLAND LICENSING COMMITTEE.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVI, Issue 956, 2 July 1908, Page 21

AUCKLAND LICENSING COMMITTEE.

FITZROY HOTEL LICENSE. The adjourned meeting of the Auckland Licensing Court was held last Saturday when a new application was made for the license of the license of the Fitzroy Hotel by Chas. George Taylor. The police offered no objection. The Magistrate questioned whether the application had been lodged in the prescribed time, and whether the clause giving the Bench power to waive the time limit would cover such a wide case. On it being advanced that the meeting was in reality the annual one, and that, therefore, the matter was brought up well within time, it was decided to grant the application. It was also reported that improvements to the sanitary arrangements of the Empire Hotel and the lighting of four bedrooms at the Britomart otel, had been effected. ALEXANDRA HOTEL. Mr Singer, on behalf of the licensee of the Alexandra Hotel (Federalstreet), intimated that he had filed a petition which he desired the chairman to peruse.

Mr R. W. Dyer, S.M., explained that the meeting had been adjourned only to hear one particular application, and they had no power to reopen a case which had been previously decided. “ But,” said Mr Singer, “ I have filed the petition, and paid no status whatsoever for addressing the Bench any more than one of the public. We are only hearing you on indulgence.”

Mr Singer asked for a police report before next quarterly "meeting, when he would lodge a petition and call evidence in favour of a fresh application. Mr Dyer stated in reply that they could not prejudge such cases. He would also point out to Mr Singer the question of whether a petition could be lodged for a licensee. The matter was then dropped.