FEMALES AND A "PRIVATE" BAR.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 30, 4 February 1913, Page 6

FEMALES AND A "PRIVATE" BAR.

AN IMPORTANT JUDGMENT/ (Per Press Association.) Wellington, February 4. An important judgment relative to private bars was given to-day by Dr. McArthur, S.M. The licensee of the Adelphi Hotel was charged with having employed a fenialo in his private bar who was not registered as a barmaid. His Worship held that the bar referred to in the .information was a private bar, and that, an offence had been committed. Defendant was fined £22 and Court fees. The Magistrate pointed out that the penalty was a recurring one, but said he had no desire in the present case to inflict such a penalty as it was a test case. Mr T. Wilford, counsel for the, defence, pointed out that the effect of the judgment was so far-reaching that it might have the effect of imposing a liability on hotelkeepers of,reconstructing licensed premises, which had been' constructed under the authority of the existing law, and it might also affect the license issued to many hotel- ' keepers in New Zealand so far as the relation of “bar” to “license” applied. He, therefore, gave notice to appeal. Several similar cases were adjourned. /