A TRAVELLER'S COMPLAINT.

Evening Post, Volume XLVII, Issue 88, 14 April 1894, Page 2

A TRAVELLER'S COMPLAINT.

» TO THE XDITOB. Sib — Could I ask what constitutes a bona fids traveller under the Licensing Act ? My reasons for asking this are that on Sunday hist I, with two of my friends who came from Dunedin by the Waihora, on our way home, a hundred miles up country from Wellington, suffering from the ill-effects of sea-sick-ness, called at a leading hotel for the purpose of getting a glass of liquor, and were refused, on the ground that they could not serve anyone except boarders.- We retired, and walked about for some time, returned again to the hotel, and told the person in charge we were bona fide travellers, jost arrived from Dunedin, and were willing to give onr names and residence, but we were still refused. Therefore, if Mr. Seddon's Lioonring Act is only to favour boarders jn preference; to famished travellers, it is time the Act was altered. I suppose if any *of the Prohibition spies we; c watching the hotel at the time, the landlord would be credited with serving six drinks, lam, Ao., T.B. - ' | Publicans must necessarily exercise great caution, as the -consequences of an error of judgment as regards the bona fldtt of an alleged traveller demanding to be served on Sunday, Bright involve forfeiture of license. -Ed. JKLP.i