✨ Public House License Conditions
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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.
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Nil.
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The license to be cancelled if any of the conditions of the license be not fulfilled regularly; or if any drunkenness 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.
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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 each private sitting-room for the information of travellers.
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A tariff of charges to be kept posted up in like manner.
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To provide a Visitors’ Book, which shall be kept in a conspicuous part of the house, and be open to visitors and lodgers to insert any remark on the accommodation or attendance. The book to be open at all times to inspection by magistrates or the police, and to be sent to the Clerk of the Bench at Christchurch a week before the annual licensing meeting, for the purpose of being produced at that meeting.
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To keep a copy of the Public-house Ordinance in his house.
SHAKESPEARE, EDMUND, the Halswell River.
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All the premises to be kept in good repair. To provide in his house, besides the tap-room or room answering as such, one public sitting-room.
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Not less than four beds for travellers in not less than two separate bed-rooms.
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To provide a shed sufficiently weather-tight, and fit for the accommodation of at least two horses.
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To provide and keep in good repair a good and sufficient stock-yard for yoking up cattle.
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Nil.
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Nil.
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Nil.
4, 5, 8, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, as in Weeden’s.
GIGGS, GEORGE, “The Selwyn Hotel,” River Selwyn.
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All the premises to be kept in good repair. To provide in his house, besides the tap-room, or room answering as such, one public and two private sitting-rooms.
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Not less than 25 beds for travellers, in not less than 15 separate bedrooms.
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To provide a shed sufficiently weather-tight and fit for the accommodation of at least eight horses.
9 and 13. Nil.
4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, as Weeden’s.
19, as Weeden’s 18.
Bar to be removed from its present position within three months from this date.
WHITE, CHARLES, The Waimakariri, “White’s Accommodation House.”
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All the premises to be kept in good repair. To provide in his house, besides the tap-room, or room answering as such, one public and one private sitting-room.
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Not less than ten beds for travellers, in not less than four separate bed-rooms.
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To provide a shed sufficiently weather-tight and fit for the accommodation of at least six horses.
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Nil.
4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, as in Weeden’s.
To keep at all times a horse for conveyance of foot passengers across the Waimakariri during the hours of daylight, in summer and winter, at a moderate charge. Officers of the Supreme Court, magistrates, and police Constables on duty and prisoners to be put across free of charge. To afford every assistance in his power in directing strangers to a safe fording.
VINCENT, WILLIAM, and STACE, OWEN, The Rakaia, “Dunford’s Accommodation House.”
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All the premises to be kept in good repair. To provide in his house, besides the tap-room, or room answering as such, one public and two private sitting-rooms. Also, to provide a separate room and special and proper accommodation for female travellers.
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Not less than 20 beds for travellers, in not less than twelve separate bed-rooms.
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To provide a shed sufficiently weather-tight and fit for the accommodation of at least twenty horses.
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Nil.
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Not to keep a lamp burning at night outside the house.
4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, as Weeden’s.
- Conditions regarding the Ferry over the Rakaia to stand as per special contract with the Provincial Government, dated 19th July, 1860; and especially, the licensees shall keep a ferry boat or boats to be used upon the river Rakaia, the gear and all necessary fittings, to render the same
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Conditional Licenses Granted
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🏘️ Provincial & Local GovernmentLicenses, Conditions, Public Houses, Accommodation
- Edmund Shakespeare, Licensee of public house at Halswell River
- George Giggs, Licensee of The Selwyn Hotel
- Charles White, Licensee of White’s Accommodation House
- William Vincent, Licensee of Dunford’s Accommodation House
- Owen Stace, Licensee of Dunford’s Accommodation House
Canterbury Provincial Gazette 1862, No 13