LIQUOR IN CABARET

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21180, 29 October 1938, Page 16

LIQUOR IN CABARET

PROPRIETOR CONVICTED By Telegraph—Press Association DUNEDIN, October 28. The proprietor of Cargill’s Castle Cabaret, Ellis Thomas Marris, pleaded guilty in the Police Court this morning before Mr H. W. Bundle, S.M., to a charge of allowing liquor to be consumed in the restaurant. Senior-Sergeant Classen said that the proceedings were brought under the Sale of Liquor Restrictions Act, 1917. Defendant was the proprietor of Cargill’s Castle Restaurant. At 0.15 a.m. on Sunday, September 18, Constable Manning visited the premises and saw a number of patrons sitting at small tables on which there were several beer bottles. Some of the patrons showed signs of having had liquor. Defendant was interviewed and said that the dancers had become members of his club and were therefore entitled to consume liquor on the premises. Unfortunately he had not sought legal advice on the matter, and thought that he was within the law. The premises were well conducted. The Magistrate said that in some ways it was better that liquor should be drunk in that manner than in motor cars. However, there was a definite prohibition against liquor being drunk in restaurants, and defendant would be fined £5 and costs 10/-.