SUNDAY TRADING

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1611, 14 January 1903, Page 59

SUNDAY TRADING

THE THREE-MILE LIMIT.

PUESS ASSOCIATION.

WESTPORT, January 8.

The licensee' of the Coalbrookdale Hotel was yesterday fined £5 5s for selling liquor on Sunday, and £1 for unlawfully opening his licensed premises the same day. The question of distance was raised, the person who had the drink claiming to be a bona-fide traveller within the meaning of the Act, but a survey made showed; the distance from the Denniston Hotel, where the “traveller” bad stayed the previoiis night/ to the Cv,«ilbrookdale Eotel to be two miles forty-nine chains. DUNEDIN, January 8. Mr Graham, S.M., took time to consider his decision in a case heard to-day——a charge of selling liquor on Sunday against the landlady of the hotel. Metropole, St. Clair. Two men who said they were travellers entered and obtained drink, bnt it was shown that they slept in a part of the city under the three-mile limit. The evidence of the man at the door was to the effect that he was specially stationed there to a s k the question as to persons being travellers, and having slept on the previous night outside the three-mile limit. Though he could not remember the men iu question going in, he was sure he must have questioned them, as he never allowed anyone in until satisfied they were travellers. The barmaid also said she questioned all persons. The men said they were travellers, but could not remember being asked where they slept. The case is because if a conviction takes place and the license is endorsed the hotel will lose its license-