PRIVATE BARS.
barmaids disqualified. Per Press Association. Wellington, Tuesday. An important judgment relative" to private bars was given to-dav by Dr. A. McArthur. S.M. The licensee of the Adclphi Hotel was charged with having employed a female in his private bar who was not registered as a barmaid. His Worship held that the bar refeired to in the information was a private bar, and that an oA'ence had been committed by defendant, who was fined £2 and "court, fees. The Magistrate pointed out that the penalty wits 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. Wilfonl. counsel for the defence pointed out that the effect of the judgment was so far-reaching that it might have the olTcet of imposing the liability on hotelkeepers of reconstructing licensed premises which hail been ' constructed under the authority of the then existing law. and it might also a fleet the license issued to many hotelkeepers in Xew Zealand, so far as the relation of "bar" to "license" applied. He therefore gave notice to appeal. Seven similar eases were adjourned.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 220, 5 February 1913, Page 8
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192PRIVATE BARS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 220, 5 February 1913, Page 8
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