LIABILITY OF PUBLICANS.
FOR BREACHES BY- SERVANTS.
[by TELEGRAPH.— rRESS ASSOCIATION*.] Invercargill, Wednesday. Robert Stewart, Ilcenseo of the Club Hotel, .and Michael John Crowe, .licensee of the* Bay View Hotel, both of Bluff, were charged to-day at the Magistrate's Court-, with allowing a person under 21 years of age to be. supplied; with liquor.
Richard Finnerty, barman at the Club Hotel, and Donald Cameron and Mary Daniels, employed at Bay View Hotel, were conjointly charged with serving a person under 21 years of age with liquor.
The defence was that persons, supplying the liquor wero under the impression that the youth was over the age limit.
The magistrate said that a mistake was made' by tho bar employees, but licensees were responsible, although in this case they -.were morally innocent. Barmen or barmaids who made such ■ mistakes ought to pay. their own fines. It was clearly evident that a breach of the law had been committed, and he would give, his decision in- a few days. . >
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15096, 12 September 1912, Page 7
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