LIQUOR IN RESTAURANTS
"LAW SHOULD BE AMENDED" OPINION OF MAGISTRATE "The Licensing Act should be amended to permit bowling clubs and such places as these to sell liquor. I would sooner see the liquor on the tables in a restaurant than to see people drinking outside in motor-cars," said Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court on Friday, when dealing with charges of permitting the consumption of liquor in a restaurant, and with Sunday trading, brought against Richard J. A. Xixon, proprietor of the Pig and Whistle, at Missicfh Bay. Defendant, for whom Mr. F. W. Schramm appeared, pleaded not guilty to both charges. Senior-Sergeant Flannagan said that a constable had called at the restaurant early on a Sunday morning, when he found dancing in progress. He had seen one party consuming liquor, apd be had purchased several packets of cigarettes. Mr. Hunt dismissed the charge of permitting the consumption of liquor. On the charge of Sunday trading Nixon was fined £l. ,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22403, 27 April 1936, Page 10
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