RIGHTS OF LICENSEES
FRIENDS INVITED TO HOUSE. By Telegraph.—Press Associattos. Auckland, Oct. 12. An invitation by the licensee of the Queens Ferry Hotel to two friends to step over and have a nightcap after playing billiards led io all three being before the Court on a charge of aftter hours trading. The men had been taken to his -private sitting room and liquor was given them out of a private decanter. It was admitted by the prosecution that there was no suggestion of the liquor having been sold. Mr. Hunt, in dismissing all the ’charges, said it would be abrogating the licensee’s common law rights to hold that he could not invite his friends to his bouse.
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Taranaki Daily News, 13 October 1928, Page 13
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