BOTTLE STORE SALES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19470, 28 October 1926, Page 12

BOTTLE STORE SALES.

HELD TO BE FROM BAR. APPEAb TO SUPREME COURT. [BY TELEGRAPH.—OWN CORRESPONDENT. J CHEISTCHURCH, Wednesday. Tho determination whether a bottlo stores constitutes a bar wis the question submitted to Mr. Justice Stringer in tho Supreme Court to-day, when an appeal was made against the decision of Mr. H. P. Lawrv, S.M. George lies was fined £5 for employing *a female, Gladys Bowers, in or. about a private bar of the Provincial Hotel at a time when the bar was open for the sale of liquor, she not Vicing a licensed barmaid. The woman ■was employed in the bottle store. In stating tho case, the magistrate set ©nt thai he held that the 001-*' distinction betwefin a public bar and a private bar ■was that a bar which opened immediately on the street was public and all others wero private bars. He held, further, that if the place of salo was otherwise within the description of " a bar," whether public or private, the fact that the liquor sold there was for consumption off the premises only made no difference, as it was tho place of salo, and not tho place of consumption, which was tho determining factor. Mr. A. T. Donnelly, in supporting the conviction, said the place of sale, and not tho place of consumption, determined the question, and tho magistrate's decision ■was correct. Mr. J. H. Upham, for the appellant, replied that there was absolutely no prohibition against waitresses serving lodgers with liquor at meals. What it was intended to prohibit was the congregation of men at a bar. He held that tho place concerned was a bottle store, and not a bar. Tho Judge reserved his decision.