HOTEL LICENSEE CONVICTED.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20198, 28 March 1931, Page 17

HOTEL LICENSEE CONVICTED.

■•' 9 * J SOLD LIQUOR THROUGH AGENT. *mmmm-Zm * % » CASE AT ASHBURTON. An important reserved decision, which- '* will affect' all th'e;wine and 'spirit firm* which have agents in. Ashbnrton or in ■" areas where'rules similar to .those in • ♦Ashbnrton govern the- sale -of liquor, was delivered' by Mr 'C. B. Orr Walker, " S.M., yesterday, in the Ashbnrton * Magistrate's Courtj in a - case that vras • recently before tlie Coiift Tegarding, the - sale 'of vliquor in by the ... licensee of the 'Ghertßey Hotel (Mr W._" Eobinson), ' '' The licensee.of the.hotel "ftas charged, - on two informations, liquor ' . on .December -Bth, 3930, at 4 premise* other than those at which he waa licensed to sell it, and with aiding and abetting L. Laffey in the offence of selling liquor without a license. After >-dismissing the second .charge, but however, that the evi-dence-titised that de- - fendatytanust lave knowoi that his agentj Laff ey,' waa engaged' in* illicit trading, the judgment spntinuedv-r~ - "It seems to if A;lioensee can" j legally-establish in- a- tbwnsiffrhat ■ in. this cslsfc was really a J braneh' df th© liquor-selling part of his bfesfctteas, ther« " _ is practically an end to»s%.£fgulatiaa / . of the-eale of- liqaor, by.. very '. / tittle chance of Sales to children, drunken .n?en, : aaidJKOther pro-, - hibited'persons.. ■' '{ t;Sepreseotatiye : 'f ' \ '-'lt, was proved that defendant' ap»-- -> » tak : r '■ >l, tive- afc Ashbunton' at a salaSy {and com*! j r mission bn saler, f and petmiwed' him 4 to v" a l^rge, 4 placard;" ocrosip the footpktji' at his 'Ot&etd, r taken. here forChertsey Hotel lied"X»affey,- J. agent,' and 'to-exhibits of bottles apparently" containing.' aTI ,j5„5 varietifesFiagn^ being .dummies... XAquor in vflscy* quantities .was''delivered" •" •&; premises' during , a,period being supple froni to, . „>