GUESTS OF HOTEL LICENSEES
MAGISTRATE ON LAW’S REQUIREMENTS A WELLINGTON CASE (PBISS ASSOCIATION TELMBiIf J WELLINGTON. March 27. “That is the trouble with you Wellington people; you have too many people visiting your houses,” commented Mr E. D. Mosley, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court, at the close of a case of after hours trading in a hotel. The defence was that the defendants were the guests of the licensee. “If you invite people there after hours as your guests—and they must bo 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 with visitors to their hotels whom they probably deem their 'bona fide guests. If they are going to entertain people as bona fide guests, they must be er tertained in a private apartment, and not in the public part of the hotel; and unless I am- thoroughly satisfied that, they are bona fide, guests, their guests are going to catch it.”
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21744, 28 March 1936, Page 19
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