TRADE TOPICS

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XIX, Issue 1097, 16 March 1911, Page 21

TRADE TOPICS

The Auckland delegates to :he Trade Conference that is to be held in Wellington next week, leave by the Main Trunk express on Sunday nigh". Mr J. S. Palmer, who fills the dual position of President of the New Zealand and Auckland L.V. Association has, it is reported, a full brief, and a well ordered plan of campaign to unfold at the Conference. There are big things ahead of the Trade this year. There is much to do, and not too much time to do it in If the Trade is united and stands firmly together, victory should await it at "he Option Polls next November. If it is disunited, careless, and indifferent, then it may look for and expect nothing else but defeat, and defeat that will be well merited.

Mr M. O’Connor, of the Waverley. Queen-street, takes possession of “The Thistle” Hotel at the end of the month. Visitors to Auckland, who

its Editor might well have felt the ask of reviewing Professor Salmond’s pamphlet was altogether beyond him And so, poor fellow, he is not without his excuses.

Mr J. Colvin, of the Greyhound Hotel, St. Kilda, Melbourne, who is also a member of the Council of the Licensed Victuallers Association of Victoria, who has been on a holiday trip to New Zealand, was in Auckland on Tuesday. He expressed himself delighted with all that he had seen and heard in the country, except in regard to its treatment of the Trade, which he regarded as erratical and illogical, and likely to end in disaster to the tourist traffic, which he regards as a big asset. Mr Colvin was accompanied in his journeyings by Mrs Colvin, and speaks very highly of the courteous treatment he received everywhere at the hands of the Trade.

Why should it be necessary “to distinguish an hotel from a prison?” Is it because, at the dictates of “No License” agitators, our legislators

South Wales Alliance. The cause of this further “backsliding” is not apparent beyond the fact that “Buggy B,” as a Sydney papei' terms him, is again in Parliament, and has entered business as an auctioneer.

A very important case involving the kainga restriction obtaining at Taumarunui, was fought out at the S.M. Court at Taumaranui on Tuesday, occupying the whole afternoon sitting. It arose from*- a trivial prosecution of a young man for being in possession of a little whisky in the town. The defence was set up by Mr Strang, solicitor, that since the inauguration of the borough of Taumaranui it was no longer a kainga. The only evidence called was that of Constable Maher, and the proceedings consisted of elaborate legal argument, whicn. mwived he 'whole legislation affecting kaingas. Mr Strang took the grounds indicated in the petition, which he drew up a short time ago, and published, regarding the abolition of kainga restriction. He . urged that the jurisdiction of the Native Council should be regarded as having merged into that of the borough in the formation of the latter, and Claimed that the provisions of the licensing law referred to the introduction of liquor into actual Ma/ri houses or assemblages of houses. Mr Selwyn Mays (representing the Grown) showed that the kianga was legally constituted with definite boundaries, and that it was not a matter- of rival by-laws of too conflicting authorities, but a question of actual penal law. The Magistrate (Mi F. O. B. Loughnan) took this view, and in a lengthy judgment expounded the law on the matter. The prosecution being in the nature of a test case, he fined the accused only £ I and costs.

Mr G. B. Main, who recently bought out Mr J. W. Bright’s interest in the Waikato Hotel, Hamilton East, is well known co the travelling public. The Waikato Hotel is a fine, substantiallooking building, and is most pleasantly situated. The rooms are large and well-lighted, and the place is run on first-class lines. A party of visiting bowlers from Auckland made this their home while in Hamilton, and were quite pleased with their stay over the river. Mr Main formerly had the Putaruru Hottl, on the Rotorua line.

The Central Hotel, Cambridge, is, as its name implies, centrally situated. It is also a most comfortable place at which to put up, the alterations effected by the former proprietor wonderfully improving the hotel, both in appearance and in its interior arrangements and conveniences. Mr A. Thomas, who has had possession for some considerable time, runs the hotel in good style, looking well after the comfort of visitors. The commercial and sitting rooms are comfortable and cosy, whilst the bedrooms, etc., are wellfurnished and are kept clean, and fresh-looking. T 3: # * We learn that Mr McManaway, late of the Argyle Hotel, Hunterville, has taken over Hastie’s Hotel, ; Feilding. “Is chere any association between bull and beer?’.’ 1 asked Mr Young of a witness in the Wellington Supreme Court, during the hearing of a tradesmark case. “What association do you suggest?” asked his Honour, Mr Justice Cooper. “I suggest there is no association,” replied Mr Young. “There might be some association,” said his Honour, with a thoughtful smile, “because John Bull is the name given to an Englishman, and he is generally supposed to take beer as a national beverage/ ’

At a meeting of the Napier Licensing Committee. Percy Martin, of the Criterion Hotel, was granted a conditional license to sell liquor at Napier Park on March 15th and 16th.

At Gore on Thursday, James Hamilton was fined £5O for keeping liquor for sale. i

George Searle, licensee of the Clarendon Hotel, was granted permission to transfer his license to William Thomas Collins Reading.

At the Auckland Magistrate’s Court on Thursday, Mr C. C. Kettle, S.M., gave judgment in the recent action in which the licensee of the Waitemata Hotel (Mr J. Endean) was proceeded against by the Inspector of Awards for a breach of section 6'o of the Industrial and Conciliation Act.

It was alleged that a barman in the employ of the defendant was dismissed in consequence of his having made a complaint to the secretary of the Hotel and Restaurant Employees’ Union in regard to the number of hew he worked. The evidence given at the last hearing was briefly that the barman (Richard Underdown) made a complaint to the union secretary that he worked some hours’ overtime without extra pay. He admitted he had never complained to his employer. The magistrate said the evidence did not saisfy him that overtime was due to Underdown. The defendant’s true reason he (Mi’ Kettle) thought for dismissing the man was because he did not, first discuss the question of overtime with him before applying to the union secretary. Therefore he was not prepared to find that Underdown was dismissed merely because he was entitled to the benefits of the award. If Underdown w’as advised that his dismissal was without sufficient cause, the Courts were open to him, and he was probably still entitled to claims in the usual way. If it was thought that defendant had committed a breach of the award, it was probably still open to the union inspector to charge him with such breach. In that case, howtver, he (Mr Kettle) was dealing with an alleged breach of section GO of the Act, and not with an infringement of the award. The information v ould therefore be dismissed.

The regulations concerning the registration of barmaids undei' the Licensing Amendment Act of last year were gazetted on Thursday night, bur. it is understood an error has been made in the notification, and that fresh regulations will be gazetted in due course. Applications for registration as barmaids must be sent to the Secretary for Labour by June 1. 1911.

In dismissing an information at Gisborne brought against a hotelkeeper for failing to provide a meal to a traveller who arrived at 8.30 p.m., the Magistrate said that travellers arriving between meals were not to expect a hot set meal, although licensees should have something at hand to ' -’h m w, h. It was impossible to expect cooks at country hotels to be standing by to attend on persons arriving at. any outside hour. Three witnesses had stated that defendant had offered “a cold snack,” and that, he thought, was all the man could expect under the circumstances.

At the Magistrate’s Court, Paeroa, Joseph McSheen. of Karangahake, was fined £5 0 and £3 18s costs for keeping liquor for sale and with selling liquor.

More pin-pricks’ At the Magistrate’s Court, held at Waihi last week, John Reid and Company, wine and spirit merchants of Auckland, were fined £1 and costs for a . breach of the Licensing Act by failing to notify the clerk of the court at Waihi in writing of a consignment of whisky sent into the no-license district of Ohinemuri. The, representative of the firm explained, that the notice had been posted, but a delay had occurred owing to the Christmas vacation.

The holder of a bottle license, which will be extinguished by the legislation of last session, applied to the Nelson Court on Tuesday for the issue of a wholesale license. : It was objected to on the grounds that the new license would increase the number of licenses in the district, but the committee granted the application on the chairman’s casting vote.

A new use (says the “Wairarapa Times”) has been found for the Masterton lock-up. In the bibulous days of the past its three cells were often taxed to their utmost to accommodate the frequent visitors. Since the advent of no-license, however, the police find time drag heavily and the building is in a chronic state of disuse. It seemed a pity that so popular an institution should be given over to the use of the spiders and an occasional mouse. But the difficulty has been got over at last, and now the cells are used as a storeroom. for liquoi" that is under ban of confiscation. It is stated that there is already quite a supply there, and there is talk of a raid by members of the “Droppers’ Union” —the enterprising gentlemen who cater for an illicit, thirst by “dropping” certain well-corked bottles in pre-arranged places.

On November 25, Frederick James Bright, a settler, at Eketahuna, being desirious of obtaining a transfer of his license of the Telegraph Hotel, Otaki, applied for and was refused a certificate of fitness to hold such a license by Mr A. D. Thomson. S.M. The refusal was based on the grounds that the applicant’s wife did not intend to go and reside with him at the hotel, and that he (the stipendiary magistrate) had made it a rule to refuse a certificate of fitness, except in exceptional circumstances, to married men whose wives would not be resident at the hotel. Bright brought an action against the magistrate, asking the Supreme Court to issue a mandamus ordering the defendant to issue the necessary certificate, and last week His Honor, Mr Justice Cooper, delivered reserved judgment, dismissing the motion, with costs.

BOVRIL MEDICAL RECEPTION.

OVER 1,200 DOCTORS PRESENT. A notable gathering of medical men from the chief Provincial Cities of England and Wales took place at the Bovril Factories in Old Street, London, on 26th January, 1911. Over 1.200 Doctors availed themselves of the invitation issued by the Earl of Errol, K.T., C. 8., to inspect the model premises in which Bovril is prepared. A few well-known medical men were present, by special invitation, including:—Sir Horatio Donkin, F.R.C.P., Sir William Taylor, K. C. 8., M.D., Sir Alfred Pearce Gould, F.R.C.S., D. Nicolson, Esq.. C. 8., M.D., Sir Dyce Duckworth, F.R.C.P., Sir Alfred Keogh, K.C.8., M.D.. Sir William Bennett, F.R.C.S. The visitors were conducted in parties over the Factories, and were greatly impressed by the cleanliness and brightness of this veritable palace of industry, as well as by the remarkable scientific equipment which enables ' the Company to turn out so many millions of bottles of the wellknown concentrated food annually. Throughout the whole process of manufacture, Bovril is never once touched by hand. Everything is done by specially-designed machinery. The concentrated beef materials were shown in the form in which they are received from the vast Bovril estates, where the cattle are bred under the healthiest conditions on the open prairies, and, after inspection by Government Inspectors, the manufacture is carried out under the direction of the Company’s own experts and chemists. The Argentine Estates of Bovril, Ltd, and the Bovril

Australian Estates, Ltd., together control an area of about 10,000,000 acres —equal to one quarter of the area of the whole of England—with some quarter of a million head of cattle. In view of the striking physiological evidence of the high nutritive value of Bovrl recently furnished by that distinguished physiologist, Professor W. H. Thompson, of Trinity College, Dublin, special interest was manifested by the visitors in the process of manufacture. Professor Thompson’s experiments conclusively proved that Bovril, added to a fixed diet, possesses a body-building power equal to from 10 to 20 times the amount taken, and that it exercises a remarkable influence in promoting

the absorption and utilization of other foods. Though only settled eight years ago, the Ohura Valley has made rapid strides, and the number of sheep there now is estimated at 100,900, and cattle at 6000. About 1500 bales of wool left the district this season, and a steady advance in dairying is noticeable, there being two factories in operation, one of which anticipates an out of 40 tons for the season, an increase of six tons over last year’s total. A number of settlers are making separator butter, and it estimated that about a ton per week of this commodity is being put through the various stores, the greater part of which goes on the outside market-