LIQUOR ILLEGAL
PARTY AT RESTAURANT
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) NELSON, August 26. A conviction, but no fine, was recorded in a case in which Robert Edward Ladbrook was charged with permitting liquor to be consumed in the Ritz tearooms when licensed premises were required to be closed. A room upstairs which was reserved solely for letting to private gatherings was let for such a purpose and liquor was consumed. The Magistrate agreed with the police that "restaurant" meant the whole building, owing to the express definition of "premises" in the Act. The Magistrate also said it was beyond doubt that the defendant acted under a bona fide mistake of the law and quite a natural one for anyone not conversant with the Act. The defendant was ordered to pay 10s costs.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 50, 27 August 1938, Page 15
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130LIQUOR ILLEGAL Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 50, 27 August 1938, Page 15
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