FATHER GUEST AT SON'S HOTEL
Charge Dismissed At Greymouth (From Our Own Reporter) GREYMOUTH. May 2. A difference of opinion as to whether the father of an hotel licensee is entitled to be on his son’s premises after hours occurred in the Magistrate’s Court at Greymouth. Sergeant T. J. Steele, who was prosecuting the licensee of the Empire Hotel, Kumara, for selling liquor after hours, gave evidence of the visit to the hotel and of taking the names of those on the premises. On hearing a name the same as that of- the licensee, Mr L. N. Ritchie, S.M., inquired who he was. When the sergeant said he was the father of the licensee, the Magistrate said he was not going to “kick a father off his son’s premises.” The man did not live at the hotel, sail the sergeant, and did not put up any excuse for being there. The Magistrate said he would have to be satisfied that the father had no reasonable excuse for being there. It had been ruled in the Supreme Court that a father may be the guest of his son.
The brother of the licensee, who informed the police that he had been invited by a lodger to have a drink, was fined £3.
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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28267, 3 May 1957, Page 14
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