PUBLIC BARS

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8180, 23 July 1912, Page 4

PUBLIC BARS

MUST BE "OPEN IMMEDIATELY." UNREGISTERED BARMAID CASE. A question of whether a bar was, or was not -“open immediately" to the street, was aecidod by Mr W. G, Riddell) S.M., at the Magistrate's Court yesterday, when Mrs the Royal. Tiger Hotel, was charged with employing an unregistered barmaid. S üb-inspectoy rtheehan prosecuted and Mr T. M; Milford appeared for defeat dant. - fact that the barmaid was unregistered was admitted by the defendant. It appeared That the bar in which the girl served—was some feet-down a, passage and .a'second door had to be passed to, approach ft. The liquor, was served through a slide doqr in a recess. Mr Wilford contended .that under the Act a-bar might’ be a passage, a room, or a lobby, but it must open immediately to the street. This was not the. position present case. If there hod been one door -the bar would have been a public one within the meaning of tho Act. Where there were - two doors the. thing was conclusive. If a room were open immediately to the street, how oould fjt be open if tho door were shut? If a door could be locked and closed the room was one in which the public could not enter and purchase liquor at all times. ■ Mr Riddell said it seemed to b'm that on the evident© there .was no proof that the place in which the girl served, was a public bar and the .information must be dismissed. '