THE LICENSING ACT
A PAHIATUA CASE. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) PAHIATUA, Last Night. The charge" brought against Michael Fitzgerald,"licensee of the Post Office Hotel, Pahiatua, of exposing liquor for sale during prohibited hours on Marcli 17th, was dismissed to-day. i Four men were found in the bar on the Sunday in question. TJie defendant pleaded that he was only "shoiiti in?"-for his guests,, and■ tlboughit he I had a right to do so. Mr L. G. Beid, IS.M., in delivering reserved judgment to-day, quoted the decisions of Justices Cooper and Williams, and pointed out that i» Fitzgerald's case, when the police knocked at the slide door of the the candle was blown out. Therefore -die did not think there had been sufficient exposure. There must be exposure, Ihe said, in an ordinary sense. He remarked that if the proceedings had been taken out in -a different .way, tfie -results might have been somewhat different.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10641, 23 May 1912, Page 4
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153THE LICENSING ACT Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10641, 23 May 1912, Page 4
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