AFTER-HOUR TRADING.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 142, 17 June 1926, Page 10

AFTER-HOUR TRADING.

GUESTS ENTERTAINED. " PRIVILEGE MUCH ABUSED." In delivering judgment in the Pokes Court yesterday, in the case in which E. M. Johnston (Mr. McLiver) was charged with selling liquor and with keeping his premises open during prohibited hours, Mr. J. W. Poynton, S.M., said that from the evidence"in the case it appeared that the privilege that a boarder has of entertaining his guests during prohibited hours is being mudl abused. Three persons, said Mr. Poynton, S.M., met the son of the licensee in the street. They were thirsty, and asked if they could get a drink. " He there and then promptly made them his guests and took them to the licensed premises of defendant, his father, where they got. drink. When the police entered they found in a boarder's room nine men, three of whom were claimed as guests by the son and the remainder by the boarder. Neither the son nor the boarder knew even the names of their guests. There were in the "boarders room 20 bottles of liquor. 6 full and 14 empty. Defendant was convicted on the first charge, and fined £2 and costs. The charge of keeping the premises open during prohibited hours was withdrawn. - Jack Young Thompson, who pleaded not guilty to being illegally on the premises, was fined £2 and costs, and wai allowed seven days to find the money.