DRINK IN DRY TOWNS.
A PROSECUTION FAILS. By Tel ejraph—Press Association. Inv«rcargil'l, Lust Night. A judgment of importance in no-license districts was delivered by Mr. Iluteheson, S.M., to-day. Victor Coleman, landlord of the Club Hotel, was dunged with keeping such premises as a place of resort for the consumption of intoxicating liquor. The facts were not 'disputed. One of the rooms was fitted up as a temperance bar, which is the resort of many, who bring with them alcoholic liquor, which they consume there. I-lis Worship said' that if section 37 could l bo read as making the permitting of a place to be used as si resort for the consumption of intoxicants, the defendant must have been convicted, but the section could not be so construed. "It is the purpose for which the defendant beeps the bar, and not the purpose which other people may have in coming which is the essential point," the Magistrate concluded. "It is not only not Einggestcd that the defendant keeps the bar for the purpose of the consumption of intoxicants, hut such view is exI pressly repudiated by the prosecution." The case was dismissed.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 2, 21 May 1914, Page 5
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191DRINK IN DRY TOWNS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 2, 21 May 1914, Page 5
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