LODGER AND LICENSEE.
INVITATION TO FRIENDS. AFTER CLOSING HOURS. IMPORTANT JUDGMENT. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, July 11. That the law does not allow a lodger in an hotel to become a ineans of access whereby his thirsty friends and casual acquaintances and others may obtain liquor in an hotel during closing hours was undo plain by Mr Page, S.M., in a reserved judgment, in, a case in which Myles Barrington Williams was charged' with having aided, assisted, counselled and procured the .commission of the offence of two men found after hours-at the Prince of Wales Hotel. Mr Page said it was clear the men were invyited into the premises for the sole purpose of procuring liquor. Williams was convicted and fined £2. On the application of Mr Perry, who said the case was of some importance to licensees, security for appeal was fixed in the amount of seven guineas.
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Thames Star, Volume LXV, Issue 18238, 11 July 1931, Page 3
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