LIQUOR FOR A FRIEND
MAY A BOARDER AT AN HOTEL
BUY IT?
May a boarder buy liquor for a friend during the hours when licensed premises are closed? If it can. be prov* ed that such friend has not come upon the premises for the express purpose of obtaining liquor a boarderMnay purchase and supply" a friend, but not otherwise.
In a case heard before Mr. C. It. Orr Walker, S.M., at Upper Hutt yesterday, Myra Naylor, who was, defended by Mr. H. F. O'Leary, failed to satisfy the Magistrate that a boarder named Scott, who had'purehased liquor for a man named Keys on a recent Sunday morning, had a "legal right so to do, and as Mrs. Naylor, wife of the licensee, was charged with aiding and abetting in the commission, of an of-. fnce, she was fined £2 aiftl 16s costs. The peculiarity of this offence is that Mrs. Naylor could not be convicted of selling to Scott, who as a boarder has a right to be supplied with liquor, yet by, aiding and abetting Scott in supplying a friend she was guilty. Charges of selling after hours against Mrs. Naylor and opening after hours and exposing liquor for sale against the licensee, L. M. Naylor, were all dismissed, it being held that the exposing of liquor for sale to a boarder was not exposing for sale to other persons though others might be present. '_^ '
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 36, 11 February 1926, Page 10
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237LIQUOR FOR A FRIEND Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 36, 11 February 1926, Page 10
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