LIQUOR FOR LODGERS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21551, 2 November 1944, Page 6

LIQUOR FOR LODGERS

REQUIREMENTS OF LAW “The Licensing Act Emergency Regulations, 1942, stipulated that no licensee may sell liquor to any lodger after hours except in terms of a written order signed by the lodger setting out the particulars of the liquor concerned,” -said Mr. J. H. Salmon, S.M., after hearing evidence in Wanganui. The magistrate dismissed a charge preferred against Walter Edward Cole, licensee of the Provincial Hotel, of selling liquor to a lodger without a signed order. The wording of the regulation, “except in terms of a written order,” had been argued in the Supremo-Court and it was held that the order must be given at the time the liquor was: supplied. the magistrate added. When Senior-Sergeant Culloty and Constable Crowlev visited tlac hotel at 0.15 p.m. on Saturday, September 10, they found two men in the bar, wiio claimed to he lodgers. The senior-sergeant asked for the order book and was shown an incomplete document. "I have no doubt that the barman was in the act of making out an order, but was interrupted by the arrival of the police,” said the magistrate. “I believe that it would have been completed. There was liquor before the two men, but T do not, think the barman had had time to fill in the form.”