UNLICENSED BARMAIDS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1939, 23 December 1913, Page 5

UNLICENSED BARMAIDS.

- . $ ' j JUDGMENT IN A TEST CASE. j {By Telegraph.—Press Association.) Napier, December 22. • An interesting judgment was delivered at the Court this morning h.v Mr. S. E. M'Carthy, S.M., in tho case in which the police took action against Edward M'Gmty. licemeo of tho Provincial Hotel,, for employing an unlicensed barmaid. At tho hearing tho facts that the 3'oung woman-was unlicensed and that sho. was employed were admitted, and tho question for tho magistrate to determine, was "Is tho place opon for the sale of liquor a bar within the moaning of Section 4 of the Licensing Act? :His Worship visited tho hotel and fnind there were two.places for tho salo of liquor—ollo abutting on Clivc Square, and the other partly abutting on Clivc Square and partly on Eir.evson Street. In the latter case there was a door on to tho street/hut this was always -kept locked, and tho entrance to the bar could only bo made from the inside by weans of a passage and two doors, rlis Worship said that, keeping in view the structure of tho place, its proximity to two streets, and-.the structure of a/recess between it and the highway, ha bad no difficulty in decitlinK that the place used bv defendant for tho sale of liquor was a bar within the meaning of the 'Act, and it having been open for the Gale of liquor at a time when, defendant had emplo}'6d ih , hu''privatc- , bai'- an unregistered barmaid, a conviction must ensue. This case, however,' was a test one, ho said, and ono that reasonably called for aft I 'interpretation;' Defendant would be convicted and fined one sliulinc. There would of course he 110 order 'as to costs or an endorsement.