IMPORTANT CASE
HOTELKEEPERS’ OBLIGATIONS. TO THE TRAVELLING PUBLIC. Press Association. WANGANUI, February ». A hotelkeeper’s obligation to the travelling public formed the crux of au interesting caso heard to-day, when T. J. Hoddor, licensee of tho Upokongaxo Hotel, was charged with having refused to provide a meal for two men who arrived at the' hotel about midnight. They had travelled all day, being engaged in bringing young horses from Jerusalem, on the Wanganui river, to the horse fair. The night was very rough. When they reached Upokongaro they aroused the licensee ot the hotel, who directed them to a paddock and stables, and afterwards showed them to a room. They asked for supper, but tho licensee said he could not awaken a servant at that hour of the night. Ho also refused bread and cheese.
Tho licensee, in evidence, declared that the men did not insist on obtaining food. The magistrate inflicted a fine of £5, with £3 8s costs. He remarked that hotelkepors had great privileges, but sometimes they forgot their obligations to the public. It was a caso of this sort that gave a handle to the prohibitionists.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8652, 10 February 1914, Page 6
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189IMPORTANT CASE New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8652, 10 February 1914, Page 6
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