UNREGISTERED BARMAIDS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 15, 19 January 1914, Page 8

UNREGISTERED BARMAIDS

WARNING TO HOTELKEEPERS, A charge of having employed an unregistered barmaid was preferred in the Magistrate's Court this morning, before Mr. W. G. Riddell, S.M., against Francis J. Oakes, licensee of the City Buffet Hotel, for whom Mr. M. Myers appeared. Inspector Hendrey, in opening the case, said the hotel was well conducted, but when the police went there a -Miss Burton admitted that she had Berved in tho hotel, and had told tho defendant that she was registered. When spoken to, dofendant said lie had accepted the girl's statement that she was registered, but the police thought that he should have demanded to see the girl's certificate. Tho prosecution was brought with the'object of making licensees moro careful. Mr. Myers contended that there was no " mens rea " proved, as the defendant had made reasonable enquiries 'as to the girl being certified. The list of registered barmaids contained the name of "Edith" Burton, whereas the girl's name was "Mary." His Honour upheld the police view, that licensees should require barmaids to produce their certificates of registration. Ho was satisfied that the defendant acted bona fide, and he dismissed tho case..