IMPORTANT JUDGMENT.
At the Magistrals'* Court yesterday morning Mr Barton, 8.M., delivered judgment in the ease of Police v. F. Harris.
His Wox-ship said defendant was oharged under section 148 of the Licensing Aot with permitting drunkenness to take plaoe on his licensed premisis, kaown as the Albion Club Hotel on July 2oth, 1905. After referring at some length to the evidence in the oast, the Magistrate said that tor a lioenssd person to allow a drunken man to remain on the premises when ho need not have allowed him to remain was to permit drunkenness to take place on the premises within the meaning of tho statute. It appeared that though the defendant was on the premises at the time the offence was committed ha was ignorant of what was going on, he being engaged tn a private part of the house going over his acoounts with an aoconotanl; bat.the barmaid who was in obarge of the bar had a goneral authority to control the bar daring defendant’s absence. Defendant was fined ilO, with costs £2 ss. After considering all the circumstances of the ease, and it being the first time defendaut had been oharged with a breach of the Act, his Worship said he would not direol that the license should bo endorsed.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1523, 3 August 1905, Page 3
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