THE LICENSINS ACT.
"A PUBLIC PLAGE." Per Press Association. THAMES, May 27. A case wherein the question as to what constairutes a public place came ..before the Court here to-day. ~ 'Two men ' were charged with disorderly conduct in the main passage of a hotel. ■ '. Counsel held that a public place was a public bar. Tho definition of public place, was controlled by the words "as of right,", only persons seeking accommodation or refreshment had a right in a passage. ■lf the main passage of a hotel was a public • place, tho whole hotel was.. The Bench held the contention to be a good-one, and dismissed the information, holding that an offence if any had .not been committed in a public place. A LICENSE ENDOBS.ED. ' Wellington Mar 27. Akx. Smith, licensee of .the Cricketers' Arms Hot-el,' was fined -210 oneach -of .two charges of having sold' liquor to an intoxicated person and..osf s permitting drunken-' ness on 'his 1 ' premise'--., and'had bis license endorsed.- "■ .;:•...'._■',■■■
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Timaru Herald, Volume XC, Issue 13297, 28 May 1907, Page 5
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163THE LICENSINS ACT. Timaru Herald, Volume XC, Issue 13297, 28 May 1907, Page 5
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