LIQUOR ON SUNDAYS.
THE 'BONA-FIDE TRAVELLERS STATUS. (By Telegraph. —I'ress Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, fcbis day. Major Keddel, S.M., this morning gave a reserved judgment in the ease of a Suiuner publican charged with selling liquor on Sunday to a bona-flde traveller. He said: "I am of opinion that under the law as it now stands a traveller cannot demand or be supplied with liquor during the time at which licensed premises are directed to be closed." Defendant was convicted and fined the nominal sum of £ 1 and costs without endorsement. The defendant will appeal. The cases against eleven men charged with ihaving been on the accused's premises during the time they should have been closed were dismissed. The defence was that they were genuine bonafide travellers, and the magistrate held that the law as it at present stood contained uo penalty for genuine travellers being on the premises. Halliday, licensee of the Wellington Hotel, Wig. convicted of permitting drunkenness,on December 28, and fined £3 and costs without endorsement.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 14, 17 January 1905, Page 2
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167LIQUOR ON SUNDAYS. Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 14, 17 January 1905, Page 2
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