RESTAURANT’S DRY LINE
LONDON ANOMALY LONDON, Felt. 19. Scene: A London restaurant. Customer, finishing his soup, orders the next course, adding: “And si whisky and soda.” Waitress: Sorry sir. yon cannot have that here. Customer: People at other tables have beer, wine and .spirit.:.; why I am barred ? Waitress: You are in the City, sir, land you cannot have anything intoxicating. Customer: Then why are others having drinks'? Waitness: They are not in the City, sir; they are in liolborn. If you want .a drink you must move out of the City into liolborn. This situation was revealed by Mr. G. I>. ’.M.iiggeridgo, solicitor, at the ('it y- of London Licensing Sessions at Guildhall yesterday. lie explained flint the City and -Metropolitan boundary ran across the restaurant at Carnage's, and the tlolborn Licensing Bench had granted a license for llu- area in their division. Customers who went to tables on the liolborn side of the line could have drinks, but not those on the unlicensed City side. He applied tor a license for that part of the restaurant in the City area. The bench granted the application.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18990, 15 April 1936, Page 13
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187RESTAURANT’S DRY LINE Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18990, 15 April 1936, Page 13
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