✨ Public House Licenses
ing, viz.:--Twopence per head for all cattle under 50 in number, and one penny per head for all over that number.
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To provide and keep in repair a good and sufficient moveable sheep-proof yard, containing a superficial area of not less than 900 square yards; or at the option of the licensee, to keep one acre of land enclosed by a permanent sheep-proof fence. For the occupation of this yard or paddock during the night, the licensee may make a charge at rates not exceeding the following, viz.: Sixpence per score for all sheep under 300 in number, fourpence per score for all over that number and under 500, and twopence per score for all over 500.
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To keep a lamp, burning with two burners, from sunset to sunrise, giving a sufficiently bright light, and being so lighted as to be conspicuous from a distance all round the house.
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To be sworn in and act as a constable, especially when required by the magistrates or the police.
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On all occasions to render every assistance and to supply information to magistrates and to the police in the execution of their duty.
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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 towns will fairly allow.
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Nil.
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The license to be cancelled by order of any three Justices of the Peace, if it be proved to their satisfaction that any of the conditions of the license are not regularly fulfilled, 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 these conditions and a tariff of all charges to be kept at all times posted up in some conspicuous place in the tap-room, and in all the sitting-rooms, for the information of travellers.
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To provide a Visitors’ Book, which shall be kept in the custody of the licensee, but whenever asked for shall be produced to visitors and lodgers for the insertion of any remark on the accommodation or attendance; a notice to this effect to be kept posted in the same manner as the Tariff of Charges. 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.
AUKLAND, JOHN,
RIVER HINDS.
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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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To provide not less than eight beds for travellers, in not less than four separate bedrooms.
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To provide a shed sufficiently weather-tight, and fit for the accommodation of at least eight horses.
All the other conditions same as Giggs’s.
BINLEY, JOHN B.,
BROWN’S BRIDGE.
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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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To provide not less than eight beds for travellers, in not less than four separate bedrooms.
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To provide a shed sufficiently weather-tight, and fit for the accommodation of at least six horses.
Conditions 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11, same as Giggs’s.
- Nil.
Conditions 13, 14, and 15, same as Giggs’s.
BURGESS, JOHN,
BURKE’S PASS.
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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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To provide not less than eight beds for travellers, in not less than two separate bedrooms.
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To provide a shed sufficiently weather tight, and fit for the accommodation of at least five horses.
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At all times to keep a proper supply of water for the house, and for horses and cattle.
Conditions 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11, same as Giggs’s.
- Nil.
Conditions 13, 14, and 15, same as Giggs’s.
- To keep a copy of the Public House Ordinance in the house.
BUTTERWORTH, WILLIAM,
OPAWA 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 and one private sitting-room.
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To provide not less than six beds for travellers, in not less than four separate bedrooms.
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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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At all times to keep a proper supply of water for the house, and for horses and cattle.
Conditions 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11, same as Giggs’s.
- Nil.
Conditions 13, 14, and 15, same as Giggs’s.
- To keep a copy of the Public House Ordinance in the house.
CAMERON, DONALD, AND DUNCAN,
SALTWATER CREEK.
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All the premises to be kept in good repair. To provide in their house, besides the tap-room, or room answering as such, one public and one private sitting-room.
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To provide not less than fifteen beds for travellers, in not less than seven separate bed-rooms.
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To provide a shed sufficiently weather-tight and fit for the accommodation of at least twelve horses.
Conditions 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11 same as Giggs’s.
- Nil.
Conditions 13, 14, and 15 same as Giggs’s.
COOK, REUBEN, JOHN B.,
BROWN’S BRIDGE. COAL TRACK.
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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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To provide not less than eight beds for travellers, in not less than four separate bedrooms.
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To provide a shed sufficiently weather-tight, and fit for the accommodation of at least six horses.
Conditions 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11, same as Giggs’s.
- Nil.
Conditions 13, 14, and 15, same as Giggs’s.
DEAN, JOSEPH HENRY,
TIMUKA.
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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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To provide not less than six beds for travellers, in not less than four separate bedrooms.
BIRDLING, WILLIAM,
LAKE ELLESMERE.
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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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To provide not less than six beds for travellers, in not less than four separate bedrooms.
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To provide a shed sufficiently weather-tight and fit for the accommodation of at least six horses.
All the other conditions same as Giggs’s.
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Publicans' Licenses Granted in Canterbury Province
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🏘️ Provincial & Local GovernmentPublicans' Licenses, Canterbury, Christchurch, Lyttelton, Kaiapoi, Timaru, Akaroa
9 names identified
- John Auckland, Licensee of River Hinds public house
- John B. Binley, Licensee of Brown's Bridge public house
- John Burgess, Licensee of Burke's Pass public house
- William Butterworth, Licensee of Opawa River public house
- Donald Cameron, Licensee of Saltwater Creek public house
- Duncan Cameron, Licensee of Saltwater Creek public house
- Reuben Cook, Licensee of Brown's Bridge Coal Track public house
- Joseph Henry Dean, Licensee of Timuka public house
- William Birdling, Licensee of Lake Ellesmere public house
Canterbury Provincial Gazette 1864, No 28