HOTELS AND THE EPIDEMIC.
POLICE PROSECUTION FAILS
(FKESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.)
WELLINGTON, December 21. A local publican was prosecuted for selling liquor when the hotels were required to be closed during the epidemic. The defence took the line that the men who were served were boarders, living in tho hotel, and the authorities had no power to cancel that portion of the Licensing Act which allowed the boarders to be served. It was contended that the selling of liquor hod never been legally prohibited, inasmuch as the "Gazette" notice required the approval of the Minister before it became operative, and there was no evidence of such approval. Mr F. V. Frazer, S.AI., upheld this contention, and suggested that the Health Department did not understand its own order. "There was no statement of approval hv tho Minister given in the advertisement as published by the Department,'" the Magistrate said, "and no proof that it had ever been given." The information was dismissed.
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Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16402, 23 December 1918, Page 8
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