From the Dover Express and East Kent News, Friday, 3 January, 1913. Price 1d.

LICENSING

The 6th February was fixed for the annual general licensing meeting.

From the Dover Express and East Kent News, Friday, 3 January, 1913. Price 1d.

LICENSING PETITIONS

The Chairman said the bench had received petitions from a considerable number of inhabitants in the parishes of Ash, Wingham, and Staple on the subject of closing licensed houses. The bench had decided to hold an inquiry into the matter, and would be able to make further statements on the 6th February. They thanked the petitioners for the trouble they had taken in the matter. The facts were known to the Bench before, and had had attention in the past.

From the Dover Express and East Kent News, Friday, 10 January, 1913. Price 1d.

THE LICENSING ACT IN EAST KENT

The compensation paid during the year 1912 has been shared as follows:- Petty Sessional Divisions – Ashford, £2,500 (three licenses); Home, £680 12s. 6d. (one licence); Sittingbourne, £1,507) (three licenses).

Boroughs – Dover, £3,455 (four licenses); Folkestone, £700 (one licence); Margate, £250 (one licence); Ramsgate, £3,606 (four licenses).

From the Dover Express and East Kent News, Friday, 31 January, 1913. Price 1d.

LICENSING SESSIONS

The Dover Licensing Sessions will be held on Monday at noon. There are five houses whose licenses it is asked should be referred to the Compensation Authority to be extinguished. These are the “Greyhound,” Union Row; the “Providence,” Trevanion Street; the “Lord Nelson,” Flying Horse Lane; the “Lord Robert's Inn,” Snargate Street; and the “Guilford,” Liverpool Street.

From the Dover Express and East Kent News, Friday, 7 February, 1913. Price 1d.

DOVER LICENSING SESSIONS

At the Dover Licensing Sessions on Monday before Sir W. H. Crundall (in the chair), Capt. R. B. Cay, Messrs. J. Scott, T. A. Terson, H. F. Edwin, P. W. J. Mackenzie and E. Chitty, four houses, in respect to which the owners made little or no opposition, were recommended for closing to the Compensation Authority at Canterbury. The Magistrates declined to recommend for closing the “Lord Nelson,” in regard to which a large trade was reported. There were no new applications for licences, but the two Pier houses that applied for the early morning licence that the “Pier Inn” used to hold were refused their request. The Sessions only occupied a little over an hour.

It was announced that the whole of the existing licenses were renewed except the five who had had the notices served on them.

The music and singling licences were granted, and also the early houses. It was stated that the “Pier Inn,” the licence of which had lapsed, had an early licence, and two houses were applying for it.

Mr. Frazer and Mr. Mowll applied for the one-third compensation rate to be applied to the refreshment buffet and houses.

Mr. Chitty asked what the houses were?

Mr. Mowll said that they included the buffets at the Prince of Wales Pier and the Admiralty Pier, and also the “Granville Restaurant” and Mr. Tritton's.

Mr. Scott asked if the “Granville Restaurant” were not closed?

The Chairman: I do not think the license ought to be taken away, as it would take away the value of the property.

It was announced that the Special Sessions for transfer would be the 11th April, 6th June, 1st August, 3rd October, 5th December, 1913, and 16th January, 1914.

The adjourned meeting will be held at Broadstairs on February 26th, at 3 p.m.; and at Dover for new applications from the Liberties on Friday, 28th February.

The houses which had been served with notices in order that the licenses should be considered for compensation were then dealt with.

EARLY HOURS

Mr. Mowll applied that the permission to open at 3.30 a.m. formerly held by the “Pier Inn,” which licence had not been renewed last year on the grounds of redundancy should be granted to two houses – the “Terminus” and the “Brussels.” In 1904 a similar transference was granted by the Bench, when the “Garrick's Head” in the Market Square was done away with. The two houses held a 5 o'clock licence.

Mr. Kemp: They had it once, and could not keep it.

Mr. Mowll said that was no reason why, having conducted it properly, they should not have it again. There were some 200 men who worked between two and three o'clock during the worst part of the night o the Admiralty Pier, exposed to the weather and cold, and it was very hard that they could not get something to comfort them when they came off.

Mr. Kemp: They can be obliged at the house just as they are now.
Mr. Mowll: When the “Rose and Crown” is chock full, there is no chance for those who are late to get to the front.

Mr. Essex, the landlord of the “Terminus,” one of the applicants, said that he had a great many applications from workers to obtain this accommodation. He produced a petition, which he said was signed in his house in two days entirely by night workers.

The Chairman: You must have a good many clients.

By Mr. Budden: He could not say if the house had the licence twelve years ago. He asked for the licence now because the “Pier Inn” was closed.

Mr. Budden: But the “Pier Inn” was taken away on account of redundancy.

Witness said that he could not say that the “Pier Inn” did a very small trade. The “Barley Mow” also had an early morning licence, but he did not think that that was on the direct route up town. People might go up Snargate Street.

It is a fact that your house is of the direct line?

They pass it going home from the boats.

Have you seen so many men at the “Rose and Crown” that they could not be served?

No; I have never been round there in the morning.

Witness, in reply to further questions, said that he could not say how many cups of coffee he expected to serve in a morning.

If each man had a cup of coffee, that would only be 8s. 4d., and if it were divided up, it would only be 2s. each. Is it worth while to open for that?

Yes.

Mr. Mackenzie asked if these two houses were to be taken away for the Viaduct?

Mr. Mowll: I do not know, but the Superintendent nods.

The Chief Constable said that all the houses in Beach Street were scheduled, at any rate, for re-building.

Mr. Mowll: Whilst the grass grows the steed is starving. Perhaps you will listen this year, without prejudice to the future (laughter).

Mr. Budden said that he was opposing on behalf of Mr. Kemp and the Licensed Victuallers' Association. Some twelve or fourteen years ago the houses had the licence, and it was found that they were not needed, and he submitted that the circumstances had not altered. He pointed out that shortly, when the new Station was built, the men would not be subjected to the weather that had been referred to, and he urged that no grounds had been made out for the granting of the licence.

The Magistrates said that the applications would not be granted (applause).

THE GRANVILLE RESTAURANT

Mr. Mowll applied for the licence of the “Granville Restaurant” to be renewed. Messrs. Lukey and Co., had given it up, but it was passed to Messrs. Worsford and Hayward's clerks in order to keep the licence.

The Chairman: That is all right, Mr. Mowll.

In regard to the licenses that were reported for compensation on Monday, by error we stated last week that one of them was the “Providence,” Trevanion Street, the landlord of which is Mr. Henry Lynx, late manager of the People's Picture Palace, who will still be there, and be pleased to see his numerous friends.

From the Dover Express and East Kent News, Friday, 11 July, 1913. Price 1d.

PUBLIC HOUSE LICENSES

On Wednesday the principle meeting of the East Kent Compensation Authority was held at the Sessions House, Canterbury, to consider the question of renewing or not the licences that had been remitted to them by the various Licensing Magistrates in Kent. From Dover there were four houses – The “Lord Roberts,” Snargate Street; the “Guildford Hotel,” Liverpool Street; the “Coach and Horses,” Tower Hamlets; and the “Greyhound,” Union Row. As regard the three first, the owners did not appear before the Compensation Authority, asking for a renewal, and the houses will, consequently, go for compensation, which will be determined later. But in the case of the “Greyhound,” the renewal was applied for and obtained on a point of law. A report of the proceedings appears below:-

Altogether there were eighteen cases referred to the Licensing Authority. Three from the Ashford Division, all of which were fought, and the licenses of the “Swan,” Wye, and the “Greyhound” Ashford, were not renewed, whilst the “Rose and Crown,” Monday Boys, Little Chart, was renewed. In the Elham division there were two cases, and one of them, the “Black Duck” Elham, was not asked for. In the other cases, the “Ark,” Lyminge, the licence was refused after a hearing. In the Sittingbourne Division, the “Cricketer's Arms,” Sheerness, and the “Cumberland Arms,” were both allowed to go without objection on the part of the owners. In the Borough of Deal three houses were objected to – the “Greyhound,” Middle Street, Deal, was allowed to go without a fight; but Messrs. Mowll and Co. applied for the renewal, on behalf of Messrs. Thompson, of the “Providence,” Fish Market, and, the “Liverpool Arms,” Upper Deal, and the “Providence” was renewed, butt he renewal of the other licence refused. At Folkestone, the “Isle of Cyprus,” The Bayle, was refused after a fight. The “Rose and Crown,” Sandwich, was allowed to go without a fight, and also the “Queen Adelaide,” Walmer.