LIQUOR AT CABARET

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 127, 2 June 1927, Page 11

LIQUOR AT CABARET

APPEAL DISMISSED

(By Ttltgraph.)

(Sptcial to "Thi Evtnlng Put.")

AUCKLAND, This Bay. By the judgment of the Chief Justice to-day, the appeal of V. J. Raynor, managing director of the Dixieland Cabaret, against the conviction for allowing liquor to be consumed at a charity ball on 4th May, 192 C, was dismissed with £.7 is costs.

In the course of his judgmtmt, his Honour, Sir Charles Skerrett, said that it was clear that if the person taking part in the management and control of the cabaret knew that its system of carrying on business involved the consumption of liquor in breach of the law, he was guilty of an offence if he acquiesced or implicitly authorised the continuance of the practice, even though he might not be on the premises M the. time of the commission of the particular offence. Kaynor had not denied that he knew of the system under which the guests consumed liquor, nor did he assert that the system was carried on against the desire of his fellow directors. The plain inferences were that the practice of allowing liquor to be consumed on the premises was carried on systematically, and that the director and the management permitted and authorised this method of conducting business.