POLICE APPEAL FAILS
LIQUOR AT RECEPTION By Telegraph.—Press Association. Dunedin, December 18. Mr. Justice Kennedy gave a decision in the Supreme Court iu v a case in which the police appealed against the finding of a Magistrate in dismissing a charge against Philip Barling of selling liquor without a license. The facts were that Scottish societies held a reception to Major McCrae in premises known as the Savoy, owned by Barling'. The admission charge was five shillings. Barling undertook to permit the reception being held in the lounge, which was not a restaurant,_ and to provide supper which did not include alcoholic liquor. Mr. McKenzie, a supporter of the societies, provided the liquor at his own expense. The persons admitted to the reception were the guests of the societies and not Barling. The Magistrate held that there was an absolute gift of liquor to the Scottish societies, and in this the Judge agreed. The appeal was dismissed.
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 73, 19 December 1929, Page 12
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