LICENSING LAWS
JUDGMENT OF IMPORTANCE. (by telegraph.— press association.) INVERCARGILL, This Day. A judgment of importance in NoLicense districts was delivered by Mr. Hutchison, S.M., to-day. Victor Coleman, landloid of. the Club Hotel, was charged with keeping such premises as a place of report for the consumption of intoxicating liquor. The facts were undisputed. One of the rooms was fitted up as a temperance bar, which is a resort of_ many who bring with them alcoholic liquor which they consume there. His Worship said it section 37 could be read as making the permitting of a place to be used as a resort for' the consumption of intoxicants, defendant must have been ' convicted, but the section could not be so construed. It is the purpose for which a defendant keeps the bar and not the purpose for which other people may have in coming there which is the essential _ point. The Magistrate concluded : "It is not only not suggested that defendant kept a bar for the purpose of the consumption of intoxicants, but such view is expressly repudiated by_ the prosecution. The case is dismissed."
Tho second term of tho Wangunul GirU 1 College begins ou 2nd Juuo.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 118, 20 May 1914, Page 8
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198LICENSING LAWS Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 118, 20 May 1914, Page 8
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