WOMAN HOTEL PORTER
ILLEGAL SERVING OF LIQUOR ( PA) HASTINGS, June 16. A conviction was entered against George Deakin, licensee of the Hastings Hotel, by Mr J. Miller, S.M.. when he delivered his reserved decision in the Magistrate's Court to-day in the case in which Deakin was charged with permitting a female not registered as a barmaid to serve in or about a private bar when it was open for the sale of liquor. As it was a test case, no penalty was entered. The primary object of the law, the magistrate said, was the abolition of the professional barmaid, and the secondary object was the prohibition of female service in or about a bar. Even if a slide in a bar was used for handing out liquor to a woman porter for delivery in the lounge there was an infringement against the secondary object, but not against the first object.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24944, 17 June 1942, Page 4
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