POLICE RAID SEQUEL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 162, 11 July 1930, Page 10

POLICE RAID SEQUEL.

BREACH OF LIQUOR LAWS. MAN AND WOMAN EACH FINED £40. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, Thursday. Following a raid made by the police on a house in Willis Street a man and a woman were to-day each fined £40 and costs for breaches of the liquor law. The accused were William Pain, aged 23 years,, and Agnes Price, alias Davis, aged 30 years. Pain pleaded guilty to selling liquor without a license, and the woman pleaded guilty to being privy to the sale in the house, of which she was an occupier. Sub-Inspector Lopdell said a constable had bought liquor in the house. Later the place was raided. On the night of the raid 16 men and four girls were in the house. The female accused, when she came from Sydney some months a<ro, occupied a house in Tasman Street. The conduct of the house necessitated Senior-Sergeant Butler warning accused. After another warning she went to Willis Street. Complaints had been made by the neighbours of young men and women carrying on entertainments there until four and five o'clock in the morning. Mr. Sievwright, who appeared for accused, said neither had been Wore the Court previously. They were not operating on a large scale. , This was borne out by the fact that when the police raided the place there were 11 bottles of beer on the premises and over 20 people to consume it. A charge against Pain of deserting from the steamer Rotorua was dismissed.