HOTELKEEPERS’ OBLIGATIONS.
A NEW AND UNPLEASANT READING OF THE LAW. MR. BUMBLE’S DICTUM CONFIRMED. When Mr. Bumble declared the law to be an “ Hass,” he apparently said (or the great English novelist made him say) the last possible word on the subject. We have many ridiculous laws in this country; and none more so, perhaps, than the law relating to prohibition orders, which may be obtained agamst any person either on his own application or that of his friends, whereupon it becomes a penal offence for anyone to knowingly serve or supply him with liquor. But, if the
judgment delivered by Mr. E. C. Cutten, S.M., in a case heard at Auckland on Tuesday, is correct, a new and very serious and unpleasant duty is thrust upon hotelkeepers and their assistants. The case was one in which J. T. Walters and Joseph D. Fischer, barman and licensee of the Britomart Hotel, were respectively charged with having served James Nolan, a prohibited person, with liquor, knowing him to be prohibited.
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New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVII, Issue 1008, 1 July 1909, Page 20
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169HOTELKEEPERS’ OBLIGATIONS. New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVII, Issue 1008, 1 July 1909, Page 20
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