Public House Licences




  1. 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.

  2. To be sworn in and to act as a constable, especially when required by the
    Magistrates or the police.

  3. On all occasions to render every assistance, and to supply information to Magistrates and to the police, in the execution
    of their duty.

  4. 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.

  5. Nil.

  6. The licence 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 licence 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.

  7. 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 taproom, and in all
    the sitting-rooms, for the information of
    travellers.

  8. Nil.


VANSTOM,
TRAVELLERS’ REST.

  1. All the premises to be kept in good
    repair. To provide in his house, besides the
    taproom, or room answering as such, one
    public and one private sitting-room.

  2. To provide not less than six 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 two horses.

  4. At all times to keep a proper supply of
    water for the house, and for horses and
    cattle, and to provide, in a convenient
    position, a proper trough for watering 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 quart, and to be always served out
    with the authorised quart measure.

6 and 7. Nil.

  1. 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.

  2. To be sworn in and to act as a constable, especially when required by the
    Magistrates or the police.

  3. On all occasions to render every assistance, and to supply information to Magistrates, and to the police, in the execution
    of their duty.

  4. 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.

  5. Nil.

  6. The licence 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 licence 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.

  7. 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 taproom, and in all
    the sitting-rooms, for the information of
    travellers.

  8. Nil.


THE FOLLOWING LICENCES were
referred to His Honor the Superintendent
from the Magistrate’s Court, Lyttelton,
under the 13th clause of the “Public House
Ordinance,” and were granted by him on
the 5th of May, 1865:—

HOTEL.

Fairhurst, Isaac Normanton ... London Street
Day, George ... Summer
Hill, John ... London Street
Julian, Joseph William ... Norwich Quay
Raphael, James Simeon ... Norwich Quay

GENERAL.

Belgrave, Robert ... London Street
Cameron, Peter ... Norwich Quay
Mason, Frederick ... London Street
Palmer, David ... London Street

REFRESHMENT.

Leslie, Thomas ... Norwich Quay
Pearson, Samuel ... Winchester Street

CONDITIONAL.

FOSTER, WILLIAM,
GOVERNOR’S BAY ROAD.

  1. All the premises to be kept in good
    repair. To provide in his house, besides the
    taproom, or room answering as such, one
    public and one private sitting-room.

  2. To provide not less than six beds for
    travellers, in not less than three separate
    bedrooms.



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VUW Te Waharoa PDF Canterbury Provincial Gazette 1865, No 40





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🏘️ Conditions for Publican's Licence at Waiho (continued from previous page)

🏘️ Provincial & Local Government
Publican's Licence, Conditions, Hospitality, Waiho

🏘️ Conditions for Publican's Licence at Vanstom

🏘️ Provincial & Local Government
Publican's Licence, Conditions, Hospitality, Vanstom

🏘️ Public House Licences Granted

🏘️ Provincial & Local Government
5 May 1865
Public House Licences, Hospitality, Lyttelton
12 names identified
  • Isaac Normanton Fairhurst, Granted Public House Licence
  • George Day, Granted Public House Licence
  • John Hill, Granted Public House Licence
  • Joseph William Julian, Granted Public House Licence
  • James Simeon Raphael, Granted Public House Licence
  • Robert Belgrave, Granted General Licence
  • Peter Cameron, Granted General Licence
  • Frederick Mason, Granted General Licence
  • David Palmer, Granted General Licence
  • Thomas Leslie, Granted Refreshment Licence
  • Samuel Pearson, Granted Refreshment Licence
  • William Foster, Granted Conditional Licence

  • His Honor the Superintendent