✨ Accommodation House Licence Conditions




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  1. To provide and keep in repair a good
    and sufficient moveable sheep-proof
    enclosure, capable of holding not
    less than 500 sheep; or, at the
    option of the licensee, to keep one
    half acre of land enclosed by a
    permanent sheep-proof fence.

WARD, JOSEPH, the Weka Pass.

  1. All the premises to be kept in good
    repair. To provide in this house,
    besides the tap-room, or room
    answering thereto, one public and
    one private sitting-room.

  2. Not less than seven beds for travellers,
    in not less than six separate bed-
    rooms.

  3. To provide a shed sufficiently weather-
    tight and fit for the accommodation
    of at least six horses.

4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, as
Weeden's.

9 and 13, nil.

HASTIE, JOHN, Accommodation House,
south bank of the Hurunui.

  1. All the premises to be kept in good
    repair; to provide, besides the tap
    room or room answering such,
    one public and one private sitting
    room.

  2. Not less than eight beds for travel-
    lers, in not less than four separate
    bed rooms.

  3. To provide a shed sufficiently weather
    tight and fit for the accommodation
    of at least six horses.

4, 5, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, as Weeden's.

  1. To provide and keep in repair a good
    and sufficient stockyard for yoking
    up cattle.

7 and 9 nil.

  1. To keep a lamp burning with two,
    burners from sunset to sunrise,
    giving a sufficiently bright light
    and being so lighted as not to be
    visible from the northern bank of
    the Hurunui.

  2. To keep at all times a horse for con-
    veyance of foot passengers across the
    Hurunui during the hours of day-
    light in summer and winter at a
    moderate charge. Officers of the
    Supreme Court, magistrates and
    police constables on duty and
    prisoners to be ferried free of charge.
    To afford every assistance in his
    power in directing strangers to a
    safe fording.

  3. The conditions respecting the extent
    of the accommodation will not be
    stringently enforced by the Bench,
    until it shall appear to be necessary,
    owing to increased traffic after com-
    pletion of the proposed main road
    to Nelson passing close by the
    house.

BETWEEN THE ASHBURTON AND
WAITANGI-TIMARU DISTRICT.

FITCH, JAMES SAWYER, River Pareora,
"Pareora Accommodation House."

  1. All the premises to be kept in good
    repair. To provide in this house
    besides the tap room or room an-
    swering as such, one public and one
    private sitting room.

  2. Not less than eleven beds for travellers,
    in not less than four separate bed
    rooms.

  3. To provide a shed sufficiently weather
    tight, and fit for the accommodation
    of at least six horses.

  4. At all times to keep a proper supply
    of water for the house and for
    horses and cattle.

  5. To keep at all times a proper supply
    of oats and oaten or grass hay, oats
    to be charged for to travellers at not
    more than 6d. per imperial quart
    measure, and to provide himself
    with an imperial quart measure.

  6. To provide and keep in repair a good
    and sufficient stockyard for cattle,
    capable of holding not less than 50
    head.

  7. To provide and keep in repair a good
    and sufficient moveable sheep-proof
    enclosure, capable of holding not
    less than 2000 sheep; or, at the
    option of the licensee, to keep one
    acre of land enclosed by a perma-
    nent sheep-proof fence.

  8. To keep a lamp burning with two
    burners from sunset to sunrise, giv-
    ing a sufficiently bright light, and
    being so lighted as to be conspicuous
    from a distance all round the house.

  9. Nil.

  10. To be sworn in and act as a constable,
    especially when required by the
    magistrates or the police.

  11. On all occasions to render every assis-
    tance, and to supply information to
    magistrates and to the police in the
    execution of their duty.

  12. To keep a clean and orderly house;
    and to render it as comfortable for
    the accommodation of travellers as
    the circumstances of position and
    distance from town will fairly allow.

  13. Nil.

  14. The licence to be cancelled if any of
    the conditions of the licence be not
    fulfilled regularly, or if any drunken-
    ness be proved to have been allowed
    on the premises, or if any spirits
    shall be supplied from the house or
    premises to any aboriginal native of
    New Zealand.

  15. A printed or fairly-written copy of
    the conditions to be kept at all times
    posted up in some conspicuous place
    in the tap-room, in the public and
    in the private sitting-rooms, for the
    information of travellers.

  16. A tariff of charges to be kept posted
    up in like manner.



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