UNREGISTERED BARMAIDS.
A LICENSEE PROSECUTED. A onse—the first in Wellington—where tho i licensee of e, hotel was proceeded against for employing an ■unrepietered barmaid, was heard at the Magistrate's Court yesterday. Elleu Keenoy, licensee of the Thistle Inn Hotel, was prosecuted under Section 36 of the Licensing Amendment Act, 1910, lor employing a young woman, named llnry Brown—who was not registered in a barmaid—in t.ho bar of the hotel. Sir. J. J. M'Grath, who appeared for the defendant, said that there had been a breach, but it was purely technical and quite unintentional. It had been supposed that Hiss Brown was registered, but it had subsequently transpired that she was not, Tho fact that Miss Brown's sister's name was 0,11 tho list of registered barmaids contributed to. the mistake on the defendant's part. His Worship said that, after hearing Inspector Ellison and counsel for tho defendant, ho thought a nominal penalty Tyould meet tho caso. He imposed a fiuo of ss.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1390, 16 March 1912, Page 4
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161UNREGISTERED BARMAIDS. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1390, 16 March 1912, Page 4
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