WAR REGULATIONS ACT.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 August 1916, Page 5

WAR REGULATIONS ACT.

SHOUTING, SALE OF LIQUORS, ETC. SEVERE PENALTIES OUTLINED. By Telegraph.—l'ress Association. Wellington, Last Night. Additional regulations under the War Regulations A.ct dealing with "shouting," sale of liquor to women, and prostitution were gazetted to-day. The Act of any person who directly or indirectly (a) pays, or undertakes or oilers to pay; or (b) gives or lends or oflers or undertakes to give or lend money, with which to pay for any intoxicating liquor sold or to be sold on licensed premises for consumption on or about those premises by any person other than the person first mentioned; (2) The Act of any person who purchases intoxicating liquor on licensed prciriscs, and invites or permits any other Tjerson to consume that liquor on or about those premises; (3) The act of any person who on licensed premises purchases or offers to purchase intoxicating liquor with intent that it shall be consumed on or about those premises by any other person; (4) Any other act done by any person with ilitcnt that any ether person shall consume, on or about licensed premises any intoxicating liquor other than the liquor purchased and paid for by the consumer with his own money, money lent, or given to any person upon licensed premises, or lent or given to him elsewhere with intent that it shall be spent in the purchase of Intoxicating liquor shall for the purposes of these regulations he deemed not to be his own money. The regulation also applies to chartered clubs, conditional licenses, and "bar" includes the bottle department of licensed premises. The licensee or bar attendant who knowingly sells lirfiior in contravention of these regulations is liable to be punished. Exceptions are that any person may purchase liquor for another as part of a meal, or a boarder may treat a friend, but not in the bar.

Regulation 13 provides that no woman (other than the licensee, or a servant -if the licensee, or . a member of the licensee's family), shall at any time after 0 o'clock in the evening enter or remain in the bar of any licensed premises or loiter about the entrance to any such bar. The police are given wide powers to enforce this regulation. In the regulations affecting prostituf tion, a house of ill-fame means any premises used for the purposes of prostitution, whether by one woman or by more than one. Definitions under this heading are drastic. Landlords who knowingly let houses to prostitutes are made responsible. Considerable powers to search are given to the police to further their investigations. The regulations will come into force 011 the 28th inst. The penalty for abreach carries a fine not exceeding .£IOO or imprisonment not exceeding twelvo months. SERVICE NOTICES CONDITIONS. Wellington, Last Night. Additional war regulations have been gazetted providing that military service notices may be supplied to the occupier' of any shop, factory, office, hotel, boarding house, wharf, or other premises frequented by the public or to tramway, train, or »hip, and the person responsible for such premises or conveyance shall be required to exhibit notices for one month or longer as required. Failure to comply with this duty constitutes n punishable offence against the regulations.