DRINKING ON SUNDAY
BARMAN AND PATRON CONVICTED By liL-EGKArH- —PIIESS 'SSOCIATIOS Hokitika, April 8. A charge against the licensee of the Railway Hotel of selling and exposing liquor ’after hours was dismissed by the Magistrate to-day. The evidence showed that following a fire in Baty’s Garage on a recent Sunday morning, the licensee/ whose premises adjoin the destroved building, and which were in danger for a while, invited the firemen and those assisting to partake of refreshment. Arising from tlie same circumstances, a barman and a young man were cbnvicted, the former for exposing liquor, and tlie latter witli being found on licensed premises without legal excuse, the Magistrate holding that a person cannot enter an hotel even at the invitation of the licensee during prohibited hours for the purpose of having a drink.
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Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 165, 9 April 1926, Page 12
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134DRINKING ON SUNDAY Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 165, 9 April 1926, Page 12
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