ANTI-SHOUTING LAW.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 June 1918, Page 4

ANTI-SHOUTING LAW.

LICENSEE AND GUESTS. By Telegrapli.—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. Judgment web given to-day in a case heard at Heienaville, in which the licensee of the Pahi Hotel and his wife were charged with committing a breach of the War Regulations dealing with shouting. The facts were that on Sunday, March 3, the licensee, a member of the Pahi Eegatta Committee, invited the members of the committee into the hotel for refreshments, which were supplied by his wife in the billiard room, from a slide at the bar.

Mr J. E. Wilson, S.M., said that, in view of the decided cases, he was inclined to hold that licensees, notwithstanding their rights under the Licensing Act, in certain circumstances, were persons to whom special legislation applied. That view was strengthened by paragraph 12 of the Regulations, which absolved iboarders or other bona fide persons from liability for treating, except in the bar- On the evidence, he could not hold that a billiard room came under the definition of a bar, as part of the premises which were principally or exclusively used for the sale, supply, oi; consumption of intoxicating liquor, JQit informations were dismissed. .