THE LICENSING LAW
AX IMPORTANT JUDGMENT. Press Association. INVERCARGILL, May 20. A judgment of importance in 110license districts was delivered by Air Hutchison, S.AL, to-day. Victor Coleman, landlord of tbo Club Hotel, was charged with keeping such premises as a place of resort for the consumption of in-toxica ling liquor. The facts were undisputed. One of the rooms was fitted up as a temperance bar, which is a resort of many who bring with them alcoholic liquor which they consume. there. H.is Worship said if section 37 could be read as making the permitting ot a place to be used as a resort for the consumption of intoxicants, defendant must have been convicted, but the section could not be so construed. It is tho purpose for which a defendant keeps the bar and not the purpose for which other people may have in coming there which is tho essential point. The Magistrate concluded: “It is not only not suggested that defendant kept a tar for the purpose of the consumption ot intoxicants, but such view is expressly repudiated by the prosecution. The case is dismissed.”
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8738, 21 May 1914, Page 8
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