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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2181, 20 June 1914, Page 5

■' What are to bo' considered lieonsed premises?" was a.problem. Sorgearit tales,-, of Eotcrua, set the Bay of Plenty Licensing Committee to solve at its recent meeting in-Opotiki. Tho-question arose.when tho license in respect to,tho Spa Hotel, Taupo, was under consideration. The sergeant pointed out that the hotel comprised a collection of detached huts covering seven acres Vol ground, nnd he asked for a ruling as to whether tho whole- area was,affected by the license. The chairman (Mr. Dyer, S.M.) said, laughingly: "You had bettor'bring i test case, sorg'eant,'then if it comes • before me I will havo to 'decide it." However, the .Magistrate locked up the Act, and said it appeared as if the whole irea was affected by the license. Tho Silico officer advanced another point, o said that according to the Act the bar. must.open to a public place, street, or highway. Tho bar in question did not comply with the' regulations, as it was in the centre of a paddock.. The ' committee renewed tho license'. TTncle: "So your teacher Tom, uses the cane no longer. How's that?" Tommy: "Well—Unit—the calibre of tho average Upper Form boy closely approximates to Olympic status, -which .'fact, taken.in conjunction with the known pugnacity of all students denominated of tho masculine gender, tends to act as a salutary'deterrent to impulsive or. precipitate action on tho part of an unwise pedagogue!" ■'" ', " ' ,' ' '' ■'" ■■' " '' •'.