Travellers' tales
AND OTHER (LICENSING) MATTERS.
(Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Doc 7 At Lower Hutt to-day several alleged breaches of the licensing laws were heard by the S.M. In one case the constable entered an hotel at 4.45 on Sunday afternoon, and found a local resident sitting in a room. The mnn said he was wailim? lor tea, but as the constable-said he would lake his name whether he had tea or not he went away. No drink was served. In another case a man remained in a hotel for twenty minutes after the bar was closed' talking to two boarders. He had no drink. Judgment was reserved in both cases. In a case where two men who were residents in the district ha<f been served with drink on Sunday there was a contlict of evidence. The men said they had not been asked if they *crc "travellers, rho barman and the wife of the licensee swore that they had Ween asked, and had said they were travellers. This charge was dismissed, but the two men were afterwards fined 40s each, one for entering an hotel while he wus prohibited, and the other for accompanying' a prohibited person on to licensed premises.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 287, 8 December 1904, Page 2
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202Travellers' tales Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 287, 8 December 1904, Page 2
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