✨ License Conditions for Public Houses
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To be sworn in and to 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 town 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 regularly unfulfilled, 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 taproom, and in all the sitting rooms, for the information of travellers.
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To provide a visitor’s book, which shall be kept in the custody of the license, and 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.
DERRETT, EDWIN—HORORATA RIVER.
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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.
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To provide not less than six beds for travellers, in not less than three separate bedrooms.
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To provide a shed sufficiently weathertight, and fit for the accommodation of at least three horses.
4, 5, and 6. Same as Anderson’s.
- Same as Adams’.
8, 9, 10, and 11. Same as Anderson’s.
- Nil.
13, 14, and 15. Same as Anderson’s.
DUNSFORD, CHARLES—BURNHAM.
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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.
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To provide not less than six beds for travellers, in not less than three separate bedrooms.
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To provide a shed sufficiently weathertight, and fit for the accommodation of at least six horses.
4 and 5. Same as Anderson’s.
6 and 7. Nil.
8, 9, 10, and 11. Same as Anderson’s.
- Nil.
13, 14, and 15. Same as Anderson’s.
HIRST, JAMES—RAKAIA FERRY (UPPER).
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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.
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To provide not less than seven beds for travellers, in not less than four separate bedrooms.
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To provide a shed sufficiently weathertight, and fit for the accommodation of at least four horses.
4, 5, and 6. Same as Anderson’s.
- Same as Adams’.
8, 9, 10, and 11. Same as Anderson’s.
- Nil.
13, 14, and 15. Same as Anderson’s.
ADAMS, WILLIAM—RAKAIA GORGE.
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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.
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To provide not less than eight beds for travellers, in not less than six separate bedrooms.
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To provide a shed sufficiently weathertight, and fit for the accommodation of at least four horses.
4, 5, and 6. Same as Anderson’s.
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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. If 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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Nil.
9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, and 15. Same as Anderson’s.
CHAPMAN, JOHN—HILLSBOROUGH.
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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.
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To provide not less than three beds for travellers, in not less than two separate bedrooms.
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To provide a shed sufficiently weathertight, and fit for the accommodation of at least three horses.
4 and 5. Same as Anderson’s.
6 and 7. Nil.
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Same as Anderson’s.
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Nil.
10 and 11. Same as Anderson’s.
- Nil.
13, 14, and 15. Same as Anderson’s.
HOOD, JOHN—MOUNT SOMERS.
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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.
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To provide not less than six beds for travellers, in not less than three separate bedrooms.
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To provide a shed sufficiently weathertight, and fit for the accommodation of at least four horses.
4 and 5. Same as Anderson’s.
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Nil.
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Same as Adams’.
8, 9, 10, and 11. Same as Anderson’s.
- Nil.
13, 14, and 15. Same as Anderson’s.
HUTCHINGS, GEORGE—PORTER’S PASS.
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All the premises to be kept in good repair.
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To provide not less than six beds for travellers, in not less than two separate bedrooms.
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To provide a shed sufficiently weathertight, and fit for the accommodation of at least six horses.
4 and 5. Same as Anderson’s.
6 and 7. Nil.
8, 9, 10, and 11. Same as Anderson’s.
- Nil.
13, 14, and 15. Same as Anderson’s.
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⚖️ License Conditions for Public Houses
⚖️ Justice & Law EnforcementLicense Conditions, Public Houses, Canterbury
9 names identified
- Anderson, License conditions reference
- Adams, License conditions reference
- Edwin Derrett, License holder for Hororata River
- Charles Dunsford, License holder for Burnham
- James Hirst, License holder for Rakaia Ferry (Upper)
- William Adams, License holder for Rakaia Gorge
- John Chapman, License holder for Hillsborough
- John Hood, License holder for Mount Somers
- George Hutchings, License holder for Porter's Pass
Canterbury Provincial Gazette 1873, No 26