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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2796, 14 June 1916, Page 6

Publicans were reminded of their duty towards ' the •• travelling public by Mr. Rawson, S.M.. at the annual meeting of the Waitato Licensing Bench, at Hamilton, when acomplaint was received that a party of travellers who, after a Ion; motor journey, called at a hotel at 8 p.m., could only procure, after considerable trouble, a meal of tea, bread, and butter. For what they received they also considered tho charge excessive. Mr. Rawson said complaints of this nature were fortmiately not frequent. Licensees, however, must not forget that tlicy were required to provide reasonable meals at reasonable hours to bona-fide travellers. Usually in complaints of this description the excuse was that the staff refused to work after certain stipulated hours, but often the wife of the licenseo filled the breach when the staff was off duty. The Bench scarcely thought tea, bread, and bntter a reasonable meal under tho circumstances before them.