STATUS OF A BOTTLE STORE
IS IT A. PUBLIC BAR? A fine legal point came before, Mr S. K Jl'Carthy, S.M., 4 in ..the Morale a Court vestorday. .'when Albert E. Uurrant, licensee of the Now Commercial Hotel, was charged with employing an unregistered ..barmaid. Mr. H. t* O'Leary appeared for the defendant. All the facts-in the-case were. admitted, which Mr. O'Leary.. said was quite unusual in a-licensing case, The whole point turned upon, the question- of whether a -bottle store on licensed .premises ■was-a.bar within the meaning of theInspector Marsack stated that the woman in question was temporarily employed in the bottle store, and he relied on the section of the statute which described a bar-;as any-room;-passage,, or lobby .-wherein; the.piiblio might enter aud "purchase.liq)ior. :■ : .•-,*•' : -. -■-■-- ;. . .-Mi.i'Clfisryirq'ijoted -various, decisions bearing.on" the matter, .and,. .contended that the/bottle store was'certainly, not a public bar.' Was-it a private tor?, I The Magistrate reserved • his decision.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 28, 27 October 1917, Page 8
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