THE LIQUOR LAW.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 264, 31 July 1908, Page 4

THE LIQUOR LAW.

A NEW. PLYMOUTH CASE. (rir TELEoitirii—niEsa association.) • Now Plymouth, July 20. In the Magistrate's Court to-day, before Mr: ITitzherbert, S.M., tho licensee of tho 'I'aranaki Hotel pleaded not 'guilty to a charge of ponnitting drunkenness on licensed premises on June 13. Evidence was given to the effect that throo prominent local residents spenttho day at tho Hotel, most of tho time in a bedroom from which they were taken away by friends, and tho police respectively, tho latter alleging that tho men wero intoxicated. For Iho defence it was contended that tlie men were not drunk, and 110 drink was supplied in the bodroom in which champagne bottlos wero found by tho police, one at least boaring the label of another hotel, ono witness alleging that it had been sont out for. His Worship said it was neccssarv for u conviction that these pcoplo should lio drunk and that thp hotol-kcoper, or his . servants, should know thoy woro drunk. Thoro was somo eyidmico that ono man was drunk. On the ovidenco before him, however, his Worship came to' tho conclusion that neither tho licensee nor his'sorvnnts had any knoivlodgo that this man was drunk. 110 therofore, dismissed tho information.'' It is vory probable that the decision will ba ap'po'alcd against.