LIQUOR FOR A FRIEND

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 36, 11 February 1926, Page 7

LIQUOR FOR A FRIEND

MAY A BOABDEB AT AN HOTEL BUY IT? / May a boarder buy liquor for a friend: during the hours when licensed premises are closedf If it can be proved that such friend has not come upon the premises for the express purpose of obtaining liquor a boarder may purchase and supply a friend, but not • otherwise/ In a case heard before Mr. C. R. Orr Walker, S.M., at Upper Hutt yestsrday, Myra Naylor, who was defended by Mr. H. F. O'Leary, failed to satisfy the Magistrate that a boarder named Scott, who had purchased 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 affnce, she was fined £2 and 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. i 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 liojjor for sale to a boarder was not exposing for, sale' to other persons i though others might be present.