LICENSING ACT.
CHARGE - OF SELLING AFTER HOURS. TAITA GORGE FATALITY. WELLINGTON, February 28. The reserved decision in the Quinn’s Post Hotel- case, given to-day by Mr T. B. M’Neill. S.M., is in favour of the licensee (Elizabeth Rairdon). ■ The magistrate found that Mrs Walsh, who supplied the liquor, although having possession of the bar keys, had no authority to constitute herself a representative of the licensee,' and her act of selling liquor was not os agent of the licensee. The charge of selling liquor after hours was therefore dismissed.
This case arose out of a fatality in Taita Gorge last December. The defence was that even though a sale had been made, the licensee was not liable if it was made without her authority or knowledge by a person who was not authorised to make such a sale.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3912, 5 March 1929, Page 17
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138LICENSING ACT. Otago Witness, Issue 3912, 5 March 1929, Page 17
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