Western Daily Press - 08 February 1939
VERY GOOD REPORTS INALL PARTS OF WEST
Licensing Benches Pleased Everywhere
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SEVEN LICENCES NOT RENEWED
A very satisfactory report from the point of view of the police, the licensees and the public generally, was the comment made by the chairman (Lord Strachie) at the annual licensing session held at the Temple Cloud Police Court yesterday, when the annual report was presented by Police Superintendent Gregory.
It stated that only one person, a resident, was proceeded against for drunkenness, which was an increase as compared with the year 1937. He stated there were 69 licensed houses in the division, of these 30 were ale houses, 32 beerhouses "on" and seven beerhouses "off." and there was also one registered club.
The population of the division was 14,949, giving an average of 217 of the population to each licensed house.
The licensed houses as a whole had been well conducted. The chairman observed that two years ago the justices requested certain improvements be carried out at licensed houses, especially with regard to sanitarv accommodation. In many cases this had been complied with, but in a certain number of cases it had not been carried out, and the magistrates proposed, where nothing had been done, or where the work had been started and not finished, to adjourn the renewal of the licensed houses referred to until the adjourned annual licensing session of March 7.
The houses affected were the Butchers Arms, Red Lion and Colliers Arms, Bishop Sutton: Crown Inn and Wells Way Inn. West Harptree; Ring of Bells, Hinton Blewitt; Waldegrave Arms, East Harptree; Rose and Crown and the Somerset Inn, Paulton.
A representative of Messrs Georges Breweries, Ltd., Bristol, gave an undertaking that the Rose and Crown and the Somerset Inn, the only two of their houses which had not been attended to in the division, would be dealt with in the near future, and on this undertaking being given the magistrates decided to renew the licences of these two houses.
The whole of the licences were then renewed, with the exception of the seven houses referred to.
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