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PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that in pursuance of "The Public House Ordinance, Session XXIV., No. 17, 1866," and "The Public House Ordinance, Amendment Ordinance, Session XXVII., No. 7, 1867," the Adjourned Quarterly Meeting of the Justices of the Peace was held on Tuesday, the 17th day of September instant, at the hour of eleven in the forenoon, at the Resident Magistrate's Court, Christchurch, when the following Public House Licences were granted:—

CONDITIONS OF ADAMS' LICENCE.

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 eight beds for travellers, in not less than six separate bedrooms.

3. To provide a shed sufficiently weathertight and fit for the accommodation of at least four 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 sixpence per quart, and to be always served out with the authorised quart measure.

6. To provide and keep in repair a good and sufficient stockyard for cattle, containing a superficial area of not less than 225 square yards. For the occupation of this yard during the night, the licensee may make a charge of rates not exceeding the following, viz.:—Twopence per head for all cattle under fifty in number, and one penny per head for all over that number.

7. To provide and keep in repair a good and sufficient moveable sheep-proof yard, containing a superficial area of not less than 400 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.

8. Nil.

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

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

11. 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.

12. Nil.

13. 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.

14. 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.

15. To provide a visitor’s 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.

F. DE C. MALET,
Clerk to the Bench.

Resident Magistrate’s Court,
Christchurch, September 17, 1872.

In accordance with the Public House Ordinance, at an Adjourned Meeting of Her Majesty’s Justices of the Peace, held at the Resident Magistrate’s Court, Rangiora, on Tuesday, September 10, 1872, the following Licence was granted:—

MICHAEL LYNSKEY,
Clerk to the Bench.

Rangiora, September 10, 1872.