REDUCTION IN MANUKAU.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, 10 June 1909, Page 20

REDUCTION IN MANUKAU.

THREE HOTELS REFUSED LICENSES.

The Manukau Licensing Committee, consisting of Messrs. H. W. Northcroft, S.M. (chairman), Dr. Scott, W. Westney, G. Fleming, D. Hattaway, and J. Flanagan, met on Monday at the Onehunga Courthouse to consider the business before the annual meeting. Reduction was carried in the licensing district at the last election, and the committee returned to the licensing bench was pledged to close the maximum number of hotels possible under the conditions of the Act. There are fourteen hotels in the district, all of which applied for renewals of licenses, and the maximum number which the committee could close is three, the minimum being two. The committee decided to call upon the licensees of the following houses to show cause why their hotels should not be closed as licensed houses: — The Wairoa Hotel, Clevedon. The Drury Hotel, Drury. The Harp of Erin Hotel, Ellerslie. The Royal Oak Hotel, Onehunga. The Prince Albert Hotel, Onehunga. The committee held a lengthy sitting taking evidence in the case of each of the hotels objected to, and, on Friday at their adjourned meeting, Mr. Northcroft announced their decision to close the following hotels as ’sed houses:— The Harp of Erin Hotel, Green Lane (Ellen L. Wright). The Royal Oak Hotel, Auckland Road, Onehunga (Leonard Adams). The Wairoa Hotel, Clevedon (Arnaldo T. H. Luks). The following licenses were renewed:— Exchange Hotel, Princes-street, Onehunga (Edward Keating), Prince Albert Hotel, Queen-street, Onehunga (William J. Rae), Manukau Hotel, wharf, Onehunga (William J. Brewin), Railway Terminus Hotel, Queen and Princes Streets, Onehunga (Archibald Bishop), Hibernian Hotel, Queen and Arthur Streets, Onehunga (Charles Lomas); Papakura Hotel, Papakura (William Parkinson); Globe Hotel, Papakura (Isabella Smith); Star Hotel, Otahuhu (John W. Russell); Criterion Hotel, Otahuhu (James M. Fraser); Railway Hotel, Drury (Harriet Dingle); Marine Hotel, Howick (Arthur E. Bennett).