HOTELKEEPERS' OBLIGATIONS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2812, 1 July 1916, Page 10

HOTELKEEPERS' OBLIGATIONS

Sir,—l wish you would be so kind as to inform the public whether a person who demands a shilling's worth of spirit and furnishes his own flask, and is denied the same, has any means of redress. . I was always given to understand that a hotel is licensed to sell wines, spirits, and fermented liquors, and that they arc compelled to sunnly the same to any person who is eligible to purchase. Also, when

"you ask-for a pint of beer are they- justified m doling you out, say, half a pint in a mug'presumed to hold one pint? I thought we had an inspector of weights iand irieasures! I wish you. would givo a few particuiJars ot the.obligations placed-upon hotelkeepers by law, and by so doing yon will enlighten many of your readers.—l am, 8 INQUIRER. • : [The holder of a license may sell wines, Spirits, or beer, but it is not obligatory iipon him to do so. All ho is compelled to do by law is to supply reasonablo refreshment to travellers, which may include fermented, or spirituous liquoTs. Vlia only olauso in tlio Licensing Act Wealing with the point is No, 191, wliioh sets forth: "It shall be lawful for, but l not obligatory upon, a licensee to sell liquor at any timo to any person" being really a lodger living or staying in the licensed premises." The polioo authori- ". ties state that a. man who is given half a pint of beer when ho orders a pint may have a grievance, but even in that' caso it may be. held that, in his discretion, the | person was not in a fit condition to'bo .ervod with more than the half-pint.] I