WHEN IS A BAR NOT A BAR?

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 127, 29 May 1914, Page 2

WHEN IS A BAR NOT A BAR?

1.11 i:\-IVi; ACT COJfPUirATION. Al lln- .\l.i-/i-trat<''s (ouri. (itahnh-i. ye.-ier,lav Kdwiu f.'ollan was brought Iμfore Mr. i;. \". KnuSfT S.M on a. charge under the Kicen.sing Act that being disorderly he r-'fus..,! to quit the I riterion Uotel when requested to do so. and there was a fiirttu-r charge under the Polits-I'lT.-ncos Act of using obstviu! lanfniagin a pul.li. place, to wit. the onen bur of the win,,, hotel The eviJenn- showed that the defend ant. who ivm slightly un,ip r the inllueiipe -•f drink, hail been provoked by another man into minj; the language complained of. ami although V' did not leave th" l.orj-1 when a.-k.-l. he .ventually did k>, His i-iiiiti-e! .Mr. u.-ked for a liMiiissal , ft.'X- charL'e as to obscene lapn.iLc .-li t'le ground that the bar of- llip ' otel ivii. not n p-ililif- place, .is it did •ii.i i>;.eii ii'iii'i-diati-ly to miy strept or ■"il-li- i '■! .-. ni:i| .in,.;,., 1 various author! ■i.-s in support of the contention. ! li'- W.,.-lii|i «iid that, he hiipiK'ned to he «,,i:.|.w!..it familiar nitl. the eases, a■'ie |>,n-t had arisen several times, more espeejalh in cotiii.'ct.Hin with the ques. • ; on of' unrearistere.l Immiai.U. The li.er iimler er-wi-xaminatiun. ile■life.l lo ailmk. the fiurrystintu made :i = to the porebcH and the position of i he I -i.-or- leading, int.. the bar. and Ins W,-r ! -irn .-let-ted to \ iew the premi-e-. 1 lie neeordiuglv di.l so. and on iv-un. J inn said that, having regard to the precis.' woH- of the statute, h< , *\»* imabk' to fin.l that the bur was a pul-lir pla.-e. :is at- neither nf the floors was it prarti.----j al'le fr>.m the har,.D totlie street. I ami neither door could ih-'relun- U- sail JlO open H.-i'VeJiKtelv 1.. iIHV -t l>, t il« Djnuir.il l.v t!-p utatute. \W w.k riceord--1 mgly bound '■■ disrni-i r.-- .-.arge of ob ! su-ent? 1-nneiiHL'. , in r-<-« of Hie word* ol j the A.-I fin.l the various ,!--i-i.-n-. With I resMi-d t.- the niirf.ti.iii of lie refusal i. ! nnit. he sai.l thi- w-.,* r.r.-)i li.ally admitj iM. bill. «- he llmitpht the i-in urnstnn.-e- ---: judtifieil him in making a profiibitior or.lfr asm n>l the .lefcndani. and aihix eniint. iind cnirt a. pr.-hihilir.n nrr!----l<p was -:>ti = fipd thai thi- «.i - -i---i-