INTERESTING LICENSING DECISION.
(Per Press Association.)
BLENHEIM, January 23.
An Important decision in regard to hotelkeepers \\ ras given b Mr. Evans, the Magistrate.' The licensee of the hotel at Mahakipawa was charged with keeping open the premises, for the sale of intoxicating liquor after 6 o'clock. A man named Lodge and three other persons entered the hotel at nine o'clock and asked for drinks. The licensee supplied them with soft drinks, exposing the: liquors in the 'bar. The magistrate,said he was satisfied as to the bona fides of the licensee, but convicted three persons being unlawfully on licensed premises, holding that they had gone in for the purpose of trying to obtain'intoxicants, and their entry was illeigal. He dismissed the information against the licensee, holding that the. leaving of the side door open was not a breach of the Act, and that the exposure of the liquor in the bar and the sale of soft drinks did not in the circumstances constitute the exposure for sale of intoxicants. The presumption that any person could have bought intoxicants 'was negatived by the evidence.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXVI, Issue 17478, 24 January 1919, Page 5
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182INTERESTING LICENSING DECISION. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXVI, Issue 17478, 24 January 1919, Page 5
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