Hotel Private Bars

NZ Truth, 7 June 1924, Page 5

Hotel Private Bars

TEWtt TO ILLICIT SAtEI.

(From '.'Truth's" pun,edih. . Rep.^ i ,.>»

In giving his reserved decision' last ' week at Dunedin, m a case In which" a licensee and a barman were charged > - : with having ' exposed liquor for said ; v ; during tho time whon the' preralsetf' 1 were directed to be closed,- the Magls- ~: trate had something to say abtiuf prl- , ■' vato bars and the difficulty tt -KeejPiHk?" them under supervision. •v. *>.».. m

VI cannot refrain from expressing the opinion." he said, "that , the ..ejclst-;; ence of , private, barq m hotels must/ tend to illicit selling.' « it be nece*-** 1 1 sary for- .the convenient and .-efficient . 'working of an hotel to have a store room or a depot m a part df the'Tiflu'se < away from the ordinary bar, BUchßtore ~ ~ room or depot should be strictly such, and should, riot contain an open bar.," The presence of such a bar becomes ' known to the ordinary, regular, bat customers, and must afford' a strong temptation to them to avail. themselves of it when the ordinary bar Is 'bloscC *.. It is also obvious that abar which .th;p*y police find difficult to keep ' undei* - supervision must afford ah unscrupulous licensee opportunities to evade the > provisions of tho Licensing Act/' '..', „ ' .{,;