DISORDERLY WHILE DRUNK.
John Adrian Jones (43), a draper, admitted at the Police Court this morning that he was yesterday disorderly While drunk in a Newton hotel bar. The police said Jones was so much Under the influence of liquor that the larman refused to serve him, he absolutely refused to leave the premises When ordered to do so. His employer Was present in Court and said that accused was an excellent worker who ■Usually never took liquor. In the last few days he had been absent with influenza. This, no doubt, had something to do with his lapse. Jones was fined £1 or three days imprisonment. The cause of. a disturbance at Jaspei Calder's "doss house" last night was Harold James Sims (54). Harold James also admitted that he was disorderly while drunk. o . Senior-Sergeant O'Grady said Sims stoutly refused to leave the "doss house" when told to go away. He maintained that he could stay there if he Wanted to. Even when a constable appeared on the scene he would not go, so he was arrested. Provided Sims pays £1 he will not Ih&ye to serve three days in Mount JESsn.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 208, 3 September 1929, Page 9
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193DISORDERLY WHILE DRUNK. Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 208, 3 September 1929, Page 9
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