INTERESTING LICENSING QUESTION

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 299, 6 September 1918, Page 6

INTERESTING LICENSING QUESTION

NUMBER OF BARS' PERMITTED IN AN HOTEL. fly Telegraph—Prcee Association. ' Christchuroh,, September 5. An interesting point as "to the meaning of "public bar 1 and as to the number of bars allowed, 011 licensed premises was raised at a meeting of tho Christchurch Licensing Committee today. The first case was that of F. M. Brewett, who applied for a renewal, of the license of the United Service Hotel. This application was adjourned from, the last annual meeting because it was stated that the hotel had more than ona public bar. The chairman (Mr. S. IV M'Carthy, S.M.) said that he hart visited the hotel and was satisfied that, according to the' Full Court decision, there were four bars on tho premises. The chairman also quoted the section 'of tho Act which sa'id 'that 110 bar should be opened or used after tho publican's license had been granted except the one mentioned in the license. _ Ir extra bars were opened the publican would be deemed to sell liquor without a license. The chairman said that tho committee had 110 jurisdiction over private bars, but because' a bar was marked "private" it did not necessarily iinean that it was a "private bar" according to the Act, which defined a public bar "or bar to be any room or passage on any licensed premises that opened immediately to any street, highway, public place, or public thoroughfare. Tb« Macistrate said this matter had not been fully considered bv any licensing committee in New ZeakiM. The committee did not wish to differentiate in this case, and would adjourn the whole Question of extra bars until the next annual meeting. _ 111 the case of the Dominion Howl (T. J. Sutton), the application was adjourned from the last annual meeting on the same grounds as the application of the United Service Hotel, namely, that of having more than .one bar. In this case the application was also granted. the question of the. number of bars to be decided at the next annual ineeting.