SELLING LIQUOR IN A CLUB.

Grey River Argus, Volume LVIL, Issue 10520, 4 October 1902, Page 4

SELLING LIQUOR IN A CLUB.

Dunedin, October 2. In the Supreme Court the case was heard of Plank v Mclllveney, an appeal from the decision of the Magistrate at Invercargill, who convicted appellant of an offence against the Licensing Act. The quesbien was whether an unchartered club could supply members with liquor for a monetary consideration. Defendant, who was steward of the Commercial Private Ciub, was found guilty of the s-tle. Justice Williams, without calling on respondent, said he had no donbt that the decision of the Magistrate was right. He apprehended that in the Act of 1893 a charter was equivalent to a license and that the sale in the club without a license would be within the meaning of section 159. If there was nothing in the Actfor granting charters t ) clubs section 59, on tbe authority of English cases, would not prohibit such sale. The distinction between the English cases and the present one is that in England a section corresponding to section 159 stands alone and thit there is no »eference in the English Act to licensing clubs. Our Act, on the contrary, in addition to section 159 contains a provision for granting charters, which are equivalent to a license. The appeal was dismissed with ten guineis costs.