IMPORTANT JUDGMENT
[ALCOHOL IN A TEMPERANCE BAR. (By Teleeraph—Press Association.! iriveroargill, May 20. 'A judgment of importanco -in' No-' License districts was delivered by Mr. Hutchison, 5.M.,-to-day. Viotor Coleman, landlord of tho Club Hotol, was charged with keeping such premises as a placo of resort for. the consumption of intoxicating liquor. The facts wore undisputed. Orio of the rooms was fitted up a& a temperance bar, which is a resort of many who bring with them alco-holic-liquor which they consitmo thoro.
His AVorship said if Section 37 could bo read as making tho permitting of a plaoe to be used as a resort for the consumption of intoxicants an offence, defendant must have been convicted, but tho section could not bo so construed. It is tho purpose for which a , defendant lceeps the bar and not the purpose for wliich other people may havo in coming thoro which is the essential point. Tho Magistrate concluded; "It is not only not suggested. that defendant kept a bar for tho purpose of tho consumption of intoxicants, but such view is express-, l.v repudiated by the prosecution. The <!ase is dismissed."
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2154, 21 May 1914, Page 5
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188IMPORTANT JUDGMENT Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2154, 21 May 1914, Page 5
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