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Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 47, 26 February 1936, Page 13

After the hearing of a charge

against a resident for being on licens-

ed premises after hours in tho Te Aroha Magistrate’s Court, Mr. F. H, Levien, S.M., remarked: “As this

man was a guest of the house 1 i w'as

entitled to use it very much as he would his own home, and he is therefore entitled to invite people there. The evidence discloses that he did send out an invitation for the defendant to visit him, anu the latter ’com•piled with it. It is perfectly permissable, and if he went in at the invitation of the guest he might havo been fortunate enough to have been invited to have a drink as well. “However,” added the magistrate, “I want to make this point clear. No man has the power to super-impose on his rights of invitation to bring into licensed premises a string of his friends. That is impossible unless there are other circumstances. No man is entitled to be there other than by this process. By inviting a number of friends or guests the man is not treating the hotel as his home, but merely as a place to liaye a drink. ’}

The destruction of nests of pheasants’ eggs by mowing machines was mentioned at a meeting of the Ohinemuri Acclimatisation Club. One farmer had noticed two nests, one containing 13 eggs and the othej; 11, destroyed in his hay paddock, it was stated. Members referred to many similarcases. It was advocated that, for that reason alone, pheasants should be liberated on high ground rather than on the flat.

Three weeks after the inter-island steamer Rangatira struck a rock off Sinclair Head, some of the passengers are still suffering from the effects of the shock of the mishap. One woman who had gone to Wellington for a holiday and was due to resume work in Christchurch yesterday has been forbidden by a doctor to travel back for another fortnight; another woman who was bringing a child up with her has been preyed upon by visions of what she would have had to do to save her daughter if the vessel had been wrecked, and a man who went back to work soon afterward has had to take a holiday to recover from the effects -of the accident-