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A SPECIAL SESSIONS for the transfer of alehouse licenses and beerhouse license certificates was held at the Sessions-room on Monday, before Mr. Spencer Smith (chairman), Mr. Frank Bradshaw, and Rear-Admiral Chads, when the following transfers were effected:—

Alehouses.—The Crown, Warblington, from Mr. Arthur Locke to Mr. Thomas Holmes Laker; New Coach and Horses, Wymering, from Mr. George Knight, to Mr. Edwin Webb; and the Swan, Wymering, to Mrs. Martha Rogers, the widow of the former proprietor.

Beerhouses.—Five Alls,” Alverstoke, provisionally to Mr. Thomas Martin, a son of the former proprietor; the Red House, Alverstoke, from Charles Henry Coward to Jeremiah Budd; and the Beehive, Fareham, from Mr. Charles Bone, to Mr. Francis Brown. Several applications for transfers were refused for want of, or owing to informalities in, the notices.

Hampshire Advertiser, Wednesday 10 January 1872 source