THE LIQUOR LAW.
DEFINING DRUNKENNESS. [BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] New Plymouth,, Thursday. In the Magistrate's Court, before Mr. Fitzherbert, S.M., the licensee of the Taranaki Hotel pleaded not guilty to a charge of permitting drunkenness on licensed premises' on June 13. Evidence was given to the effect that three prominent local residents spent the day at the hotel, most of the.time in a bedroom, from which they were taken away by friends and the police respectively, . the latter , alleging that the men were intoxicated. For the defence it was contended that the men were not drank. No drink was supplied in the bedroom, in which champagne bottles were found by the police, one at least bearing the label of another hotel, and one witness alleging that it had been' sent, out for. His Worship said it was necessary for a conviction that these people should be drunk, and that the hotelkeeper or his servants should know they were drunk. There was some evidence that one man was drunk. On the evidence before him, however, he came to the conclusion that neither the licensee nor his servants had any knowledge that this man was drunk. He, .therefore, dismissed the information. It is very probable that the decision will be appealed against.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13816, 31 July 1908, Page 7
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210THE LIQUOR LAW. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13816, 31 July 1908, Page 7
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