LICENSING COMMITTEE
A PROPOSITION IN LAW. . Press Association. WAIMATE, June 16. The annual meeting of the Waitaki Licensing Committee was held to-day, and all applications were granted with the exception of the Terminus Hotel, Hakataramea, which was postponed for a month so that the owner could be served with a notice to add at least four bedrooms.
The police objected that the conduct of the Georgetown Hotel was unsatisfactory. A man named Johnston, who had secured three gallons of whisky at this hotel, was now undergoing a sentence for sly grog-selling, the liquor being taken into a no-license district. In dealing with the case it was resolved that the committee think that, as a proposition in law, where a publican has a reasonable cause to suspect that a person to whom he sells liquor intends to illegally use it. such a licensee is guilty of improperly conducting his hotel, and in such a case where this is proved, should consider that his license should be refused on that ground, but in the present case, however, which they are agreed is one of great suspicion, • the committee do not think that there is any proof upon which they can act, and accordingly renew the license.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8457, 17 June 1913, Page 3
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