A PRIVATE BAR IS A PUBLIC PLACE
MAGISTRATE’S RULING MEN CHARGED WITH USING INDECENT LANGUAGE ( Per Prefis Association.J WELLINGTON, Oct. 26. 1 ; A prixate bar is a public place and i persons using indecent language I there, even after hours, are liable to y | a conviction, according to the judg- | ment of Mr. J. H. Luxford, S.M., in a case in which three men were so : charged, following a disturbance j which took place when the police entered the private bar of the Imperial Hotel and found the licensee, his wife, ’and a barman serving and the scene was no different from the ordinary bar at a busy period of the day. He construed the word “open” as mean- ' ing open to the public and not open 1 : to the street.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 254, 27 October 1939, Page 5
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