Cant- Be Refused Hofei Bed If-
(P.A.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Folice action in the event of the lincesee of p hotel refusing either board or lodging was explained today by the Commissioner of Police (Mr J. Cummings).
The police dealt with' the administration of the Licensing Act, section 165 of which provided that a licensee who failed or refused to supply a bed or a meal, except for some valid reason, was liable to a fine not exceeding £lO, he said. A number of judicial rulings had been given on this section, including the question of “valid reason.” A licensee was not bound to accommodate a traveller if he gave no security that he would pay his bill, nor if he came with a dog which would cause alarm to the inmates of the hotel and other visitors. Another valid reason was that all bedrooms were full. A licensee was not bound to provide shakedowns or other temporary lodg-. ing. In every reported case in which a licensee had allegedly failed, without reason, to provide bed or meals the police prosecuted, but in many cases recently it had teen held by courts that deficiency of staff was a valid reason* for refusal.
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Northern Advocate, 5 June 1947, Page 7
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