LIQUOR LAW CRITICISED
“Confusing And Stupid”
(New Zealand Press Association) WANGANUI. August 20.
“The Supreme Court holds that guests are allowed to be there, and it is obvious that invitees of guests are entitled to be there also. And if guests are allowed in the bar. then th" licensee can open the bar for the sale of liquor. Is there such a thing as opening for sale after hours? It seems that the position is getting more and more confused. and the whole thing seems stupid,” said Mr W. C. Harley. S.M.. in the Magistrate’s Court at Taihape today when he fined William Robert Counsell licensee of the Gretna Hotel, £5 on a charge ot exposing liquor for salt at a time when the premises were required to be closed.
On a further charge of opening for the sale of liquor. Counsell was convicted and discharged. Senior-Sergeant H. Griffith quoted two law cases where it was ruled that lodgers at hotels were not entitled to invite guests specifically for the purpose of drinking liquor after hours.
The Magistrate said the defendants had pleaded guilty and would, therefore, have to be convicted.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28979, 21 August 1959, Page 12
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