LIQUOR REMOVAL
Illegal In Closing Hours Delivering a reserved judgment in the Magistrate’s Court, Wellington, yesterday, Mr. Goulding, S.M., held that one of the objects of recent licensing regulations was to prevent lodgers in hotel.-?, in common with all other |iersosti, from removing liquor from hotels when the premises were required to be closed. He imposed a tine of £5/10/- on Stuart. Altlred, a labourer, for removing liquor from a hotel during closing hours. Ibe magistrate said that, if a lodger could remove liquor in the manner adopted in Hie case, the whole purpose of the regulations would be defeated. A charge against the licensee. Andrew Reid Dunean, of allowing liquor to be removed from the hotel during closing houn?, was dismissed. Unless the evidence showed that the licensee had some knowledge of what had been done or had connived in the removal, he could not tie convicted, Mr. Goulding said. He could not uphold the police contention of absolute responsibility of the licensee, whether lie wa.s aware of the removal or not. Senior-Sergeant Paine appeared for the prosecution and Mr. .1. A. Scott for
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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 282, 27 August 1942, Page 6
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185LIQUOR REMOVAL Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 282, 27 August 1942, Page 6
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