LIQUOR FOR FRIENDS.
• HOTEL LODGER FINED. DECISION OF MAGISTRATE. [BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON. Friday. That the law clocs not allow a lodger in a hotel to become a moans of access whereby , his thirsty friends and casual acquaintances and others may receive liquor in a hotel during closing hours was made plain to-day by Mr. E. Pago, S.M., in his reserved judgment in the case in which Myles Barrington Williams was charged with having aided, assisted, counselled and procured tho commission of an offence by two men who were found after hours afc the Princq of Wales Hotel.
Tho magistrate 4 said it was clear that the men were invitod into the premises for Ihe sole purpose of procuring liquor. Williams was convicted and fined £2.
On tho application of Mr. Perry, who said tho case was of some, importance to licensees, security for appeal was fixed at the amount of £7 7s.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20922, 11 July 1931, Page 12
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154LIQUOR FOR FRIENDS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20922, 11 July 1931, Page 12
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