REGULATIONS AGAINST "SHOUTING"

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 239, 27 June 1918, Page 4

REGULATIONS AGAINST "SHOUTING"

o ■ INFORMATION DISMISSED. By Telegraph-PrcEe Association. Auckland, Juno 26. I Judgment was given tcnlay in the case heard at Heloneville, in which the licensee of the Pabl Hotel and his wife, were charged with committing a, breach o[ tho war regulations dealing with "shouting." Tho facts woro that on Sunday, March 3, tlto licensee, n member of tho Pahi Itegatfa , Committee, invited the members of tho committee into the hotel for refreshments, which wero supplied by his wife in the billiard room from a, slide at the bar. For tho prosecution it was submitted that the circumstances constituted a breach of the regulations, and that tho liquor was consumed in the bar. Mr. J. E. Wilson, S.M., said that in view of decided case.? he was inclined 'to hold that licensees, notwithstanding their rights under tho Licensing Act in certain circumstances, were persons to whom the special legislation applied. That viow was strengthened by para-> graph 12 of the regulations, which, absolvod boarders or other bona fido porsons horn liability for treating, except in the bar. On tho evidence ho could not hold that the billiard room camo under tho definition of "bar* aspart of the premises which were principally or exclusively used for the sale, supply, or consumption of intoxicating j liquor. Tho informations were dismissed. ' ____