A NIGHTCAP SEQUEL
HOTELKEEPER'S EIGHT. (Per Press Association. —Copyright.) 'AUCKLAND, This Day. An invitation by the licensee of the Queens Ferry Hotel to two friends to step over and have a nightcap after playing billiards led to all three being before the Court on an “after hours trading" charge. They were taken to the licensee's private sitting room, and, liquor was given them out of a private decanter. It was ad; mitted by the prosecution that there was no suggestion of liquor having been sold. Mr F. K, Hunt, S.M., in dismissing all charges, said it would be"abrogating a licensee's Common Law rights to hold that he could not invito his friends to- his bouse.
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Northern Advocate, 12 October 1928, Page 5
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115A NIGHTCAP SEQUEL Northern Advocate, 12 October 1928, Page 5
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