LIQUOR AFTER HOURS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 155, 2 July 1937, Page 9

LIQUOR AFTER HOURS.

BONA FIDE GUESTS. APPEAL COURT CASE. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Tuesday. The question of a hotel licensee's bona fide guests being on premises during prohibited houre and incidentally supplying them with liquor is raised in the Appeal Court, which is hearing the case of William Mackenzie v. William John Harper. Lillian Mackenzie, wife of the appellant, was convicted and fined at Christchurch by Mr. E. C. Levvey, S.M., on a charge of supplying liquor after houre at Tattersall's Hotel. The defendant pleaded not guilty. The .magistrate found as a fact that the persons supplied were at the time bona fide guests of Mrs. Mackenzie. He was compelled to follow a Supreme Court decision of 192G, although he disagreed with it. The appeal was taken against this finding on the ground that it was erroneous in law. Mr. F. D. Sargent, for the appellant, said the questions for the Court to determine were: (1) Whether the appellant committed an offence under the Licensing Act, 1908, section 205; and (2) whether a licensee's wife can have bona fide guests during prohibited hours and incidentally provide them with liquor. The Court adjourned until to-morrow.