VISITORS TO HOTELS.
GUESTS AFTER HOURS.
DEFINITION OF FOSITION. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Friday. "That is the trouble with you Wellington people, you have too many people visiting your houses," commented Mr. E. D. Moslcy, S.M., in tho Magistrate's Court at the close of a case of after hours trading in an hotel.
The dcfence was that the defendants were the guests of the licensee.
"If you invito people there after hours as your guests, and they must be bona fide guests and entertained as such, they should go upstairs and not downstairs," continued the magistrate. "Hotelkeepers are not allowed to play fast and loose with the Licensing Act. There is too much of that. Licensees are in a different position from other members of the public, especially as regards visitors to their hotels whom they probably deem their bona fide guests. If they arc going to entertain people as bona fide guests they must be entertained in a private apartment, and not in a public part of the hotel, and, unless I am thoroughly satisfied tliafc they are bona fide guests, their guests are going to'catch it."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 75, 28 March 1936, Page 19
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