LICENSING DIFFICULTIES.

Manawatu Times, Volume IX, Issue 1116, 1 December 1883, Page 3

LICENSING DIFFICULTIES.

p A curious and unexpected complication has arised m regard to the Rutland Hotel, the management of ■which is now under the control of theii creditors m MrJSvan's estate. Oft, the 10 1 st section of the Licensing Act, it appears that m the case of insolvency on the part of a licensed person, the trustee m the estate may appoint a specially authorised agent r~" (m writing to the chairman or any two members pf the licensing committee) to carry on the business vn v til the next quarterly meeting, of the committee, andf no iOtiger. Thg. provisional trustee under the,' Act' (Mr.Wooh) appointed Mr Akers as Jtfisagent, and after th'e election of a creditors' trustee became relieved Of the trusteeship.' .It is necessai'y, by the Act, to keep the license m force, to ajpq^T2l^^sJJljefore thejquarterly meeting (tb c be held on- Monday nex|) for a "transfer of the license frajn^the trustee to his appointee. Thaf ha.s not been done, and the re* sultTJis that the license will lapse afte^Monday next. What, will be donje- to meet this difficulty does not appear veiy clear, as by the Act a renewal of a license cannot be applied for^autil the annual meeting m June, and§if Jp a transfer is applied- for m Maroh,, the question arises from - whom it i» to be transferred, as after Mofeday it will be out of Mr Akers' r hangs. From present, appearances, it seites certain thi,t the hotel must be^Slosed for some time at least.- - Wtfn^nui. Herald. J ; A Z: tmmmMmmmmmmiimmmmm- '■'*."■-