ALIASES IN HOTELS.
Mr W. E. Raney, the Attorney-general of Ontario, has introduced a Bill into tho Province’s Legislature to prevent visitors to hotels from using aliases in registering (states the Montreal corresponednt of the Daily Mail). It provides penalties for an hotelkeeper’s failure to register a visitor, for registration under a false name, and for registration of an unmarried couple as husband and wife. For tho last-mentioned it is proposed that a fine of £IOO should be inflicted, with tho alternative of three months’ imprisonment. “The Bill is designed to assist hotelkeeneiu in keeping hotels clean,” said Mr Raney to the Ontario House of Commons. “It is not a crime for a man to change his name, but it ought to be under certain circumstances. A man ought to use his own name when travelling.” Similar Bills have already been passed by the Ontario House of Commons, but invariably they have been thrown out by the Senate.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18899, 27 June 1923, Page 5
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