HOTEL DIVES.
THE WELLINGTON COMMITTEE’S OBJECTION.
(Per Press Association.)
* WELLINGTON, last night. The City Licensing Committee met to-day to consider the adjourned ap- J plications for licenses for the Cecil,, Empire, and Oriental Hotels, to which dives are attached. As the Committee is opposed to these dives ■being perpetuated, it had postponed consideration of them frf'm the annual meeting until to-day in order to see what the licensees would do. This afternoon the Committee decided to further adjourn the applications for three months, being of opinion that the dives were an evasion of law. Counsel for applicants contended, that the Committee had no power to attach bar-closing conditions to a license, and pointed out that in law there was no such thing as evasion of the Act. All old legal rules on this subject had gone, and the Courts interpreted statute by its language. The thing was either right or it was wrong. -
The license of the Panama Hotel was renewed.
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Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 930, 1 July 1903, Page 2
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161HOTEL DIVES. Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 930, 1 July 1903, Page 2
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