The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-06-22

ON kauai
FEACOCKS COMPANY LICENSE rs
HELD UP PENDING CIRCUIT
COURT DECISION.

LIHUE, Juhe 1.-The Kauai Liquor
Commissioners held the meeting last
Monday at which they had advertised !
that they would consider the several
applications for renewals that had so
far been presented.
Applicants were asked whether they
still were willing to accept the res
friction placed upon them year ago,
that of binding themselves not to
solicit orders i'm the camps. c. w
Spitz was the first one to signify his
| willingness, explaining to the Board
that he had instituted a system of
written orders whereby could be prov
Cd that every order executed had
been ordered over the signature of
the consumer without solicitation.
The balance Of the applicants soon
followed suit and would willingly ac-
cept the condition but they all eX-
pressed a wish that the Board would
do something to stop the Honolulu
firms who do a fourishing camp bust
ness on Kauai without swelling the
county treasury with a penny for Ii
cense from being their preferred com
petitors.
The Board declared its willingness
to do so but failed to see how it was
, to be done. The only way by which
it was thought possible to reach the
offenders was through the pockets of
l the blind pigs on this island, through
i activity on the part of the police and
the liquor inspector. A remarkable
: Improvement had been observed
o within the last month or so during
! which time three ffty-two gallon
9 casks besides a lot of whisky, sake
= and other cheer had been confiscated
D The Honolulu dealers seemed to find
i that the profit on that class of trade
e couldn't bear the loss of a barrel oil
e wine every week.
d The applications were then tackled
t and those of c. w. Spitz, Waimea
= Wine Co., S. Ozalli, J. l. Silva, J. K
e Gandall and Kapaa Wine Co., were
4 granted. there being no complaint
lodged against them nor had they
:, been arrested for infractiOn of the Ii
: quor law during the past year.
- When the application of Kaua
Wine & Liquor Co. (PeacOck's) was
S reached it was laid on the table, as
e was also an application by J. l. Silva
:. for a retail license at Kalihiwai.
- The Board then went into eXecu
tive session in order to discuss the
bearing which a copy of the testt
4 mony in case recently decided
against the Kauai Wine and Liquo
Co. in the Waimea District Court
would have upon the granting or re
It fusal of the application of that firm
l. T. c. King representing the applican
claiming the contradictions apparen
in the evidence would be sure to &C
. quit the defendant before a jury.
= When the public was admitted agaiI
Il the Commissioners announced tina
they had decided to postpone the con
sideration of the application until the
= case against the applicant had beer
= decided in the Circuit Court
= They also informed Mr., Silva tina
l. his application for a retail license a
- Kalihiwai had been tabled. Mr. Silva
u in spite of the knowledge that tina
" meant make" pleaded the Board t.
reconsider the application, urging tina
the district was a large one and ia
e removed from the place of business o
} any other liquor dealer. He would
r bind himself not to sell by the glass
i but by bottle only and even went 81
n far as to say that he would be willing
s Ito pay double the license. The Board
- however did not seem to look favor
= ably at the proposition, declaring tina
one retail license granted would opel
T. the door for other claimants to thu
u same privilege.-Garden Isle.
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