“A PUBLIC PLACE.”
AN IMPORTANT DECISION
Press' Association.
THAMES, last night.
A case wherein the qxxestion as to what constitutes a public place xx’as before the Polico Court to-day. Two men wore charged with disorderly conduct in the main passage of an hotel.
Counsel held that the only “public place” in a hotel was the public bar. The definition of a public place xvjis controlled by the words, “as of right.” Only persons seeking accomriiodation or refreshment had a right in the passage. If the main passage of an* hotel was a public place the whole of the hotel was so. The Benclx held the contention to be a good one', and dismissed the information, holding that the offence, if any, bad not been committed in a public place..
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2091, 28 May 1907, Page 3
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