BUSINESS IN BARS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 161, 9 July 1932, Page 11

BUSINESS IN BARS.

WARN"IX:'J TO LICENSEES. (P.y Tologi'.ip'i.—Own ('unospoiident.) WKIJ.IXCTOX. Fi-iJay. "Licensee's must not get the ideu that because tlicir customer* happen to be talking business they cull stay in a bar lifter hours. 1 think tliis lieeii.ee jiik! others would be well advised to see that their bars are cleared of customers -i;arp at 0 o'clock. If customers have bona Ir.le b .is'hicm* to transact, they can <',o so in other rooms set ai*i;!e for the pu:p.'.e in the hotel..and they have o:ily Ihem-clves to bhinie if an unfavourable inference is drawn from their presence in the bar after ho'.irs." These remark* wore made by Mr. K. Pa :c. S.M., today, wiien dismisfiing charges against William Bever'dga, licciute of the Occidental Hotel. .lean Ilo.l• e. barmaid, and He"ii!ii!d Frederick Ciocdworth and lirVin Rhodes, two men who were found in the private bar at (J. 14 one evening. The defence was that Rhodes, who was a visitor, had met Good worth by appointment at the hotel just before <>' o'clock, to diricusij business. Uho.ies intended to book in. but had not done so at the time of the police vi.sit. He had afterwards done so, and spent the n'ght at the hotel. The maiistrate held that the men were boiia lidc on the premi.es, and also that they had not consumed the liquor which they had ordered before l> o'clock*.