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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 329, 25 July 1889, Page 2

Is the last Gazette to hand there is an Order in Council in regard to a case which la. just the same as that of the Royal Oak Hotel, Matawhoro, For general information we republish the notification Whereas by the two hundred and twenty seventh section of “The Licensing Act, 1881” (hereinafter termed “ the said Act”), it is enacted that, if, through any. accidental or unavoidable Impediment, misfeasance, or omission, anything required by the said Act to be done is omitted to be done, or is not done within the time fixed, the Governor io Council may take all such measures as may be necessary for removing such impediment or rectifying such misfeasance or omission, and may validate anything which may have been irregularly done in matter of form, so that the intent and purpose of the said Act may have effect: And whereas, at the quarterly meeting of the Licensing Committee for the District of Mongonui, held in June last, George Williams applied for a renewal of a license for the Settlers' Hotel, Mongonui, and the application was granted by the said Committee, and a certificate was thereupon issued for such renewal: And whereas the said George Williams, through an accidental impediment, omitted to pay the necessary tee within the required time, but did one day afterwards pay the said fee, and thereupon the Treasurer of the Mongonui County Council granted such license to the said George Williams: Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by the said Act, and of all other powers enabling him in thia behalf, and acting with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby validate the said oertifloate and the grant ofthe said license to the said George Williams as aforesaid.