LICINSING CAR.

Bush Advocate, Volume XII, Issue 1756, 5 October 1899, Page 3

LICENSING CAR.

'-'• ..'At Woodrille yesterday, *■<$'■ *r Northcroft, 5.M.,1?. TattfcioUill. >n- ..: ik of theKuruero* Hotel, on a chnrge •:-. ondar Sactioa 155 of the liceus-ing ■ /Act-, of keeping open hit prem>6os for .the salt of liquojc during; prohibited >' hours oaSundayi August 20, was fined :>ipß and costs £4 15s, and his license ;» endorsed. On, a -further charge of '< './JkUotviag liquor to be consumed on his ,V''jpi^jsM daring prohibited liour^ he ;.^-.WMfe«v^4os and costi' 7a. t^orgt. ■ -vSiddells prosecuted. .Tii« o»id»!ace ,' .^went to show that a numbar of men rt were about the hotel drinking on the "^Sunday] in question,', and the defence i^wasTthit.the liquor, .consumed was a J^gift byithelicehsee,.but the Magistrate M held th»t th« men wera not hona fide of the licensee. This, he said, ■praWVin accordance ..with the apf peal case Batt v. Cullen, where e^the Court ruled that an ordinary cus- < »;wmec;^M tiea^ed by a lidensee for the j'X-jnfcpoieXo* beneflttihg. his ordinary I- r ,»u«ines8 I and another, important case *f(V«i;'oited where it was held that a S'Jioensee was justifiedin treating a bona fl'flde' friend. As bearing on some of the .;■ evidehce, ■ another appeal cass was ;ti' quoted, iinder the Alcoholio Liquor. [jjSalii 1 Control Actj 1895, where it was ■^detjidecl'tha't a traveller was only en-g-i'titled to 1 receive refreshment on arriv-;t-ing from « journey, and not at any y4laf»f.time.-~A further charge against f]il>;?Tattershill, ;.of discharging fire- ; 'y*riiis, : l was ; dis l «iisßed : . '