INVALID PORT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 15, 19 January 1933, Page 9

INVALID PORT.

SALE AFTER HOURS

LICENSEE AND BARMAN FINED.

(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) PAPAKURA, Wednesday. Charges of selling liquor after hours and supplying a person under the age of 21 years were admitted in the Police Court to-day' by Hugh Arnold Pollock, the licensee of the Papakura Hotel, and a barman; Bruce Attwell.

Sergeant J. T. Cowan said that Constable T. Holland, of Papakura, saw a young man coining from the Papakura Hotel at about 9.15 p.m. He accosted him and found in Ills possession a bottle of wine. The young man told the con-, stable that he had just purchased it at the hotel for his mother who was in illhealth. The constable interviewed the barman Attwell, who admitted having sold the wine. He declared that he had been asked for invalid port for a case of sickness. The licensee of the hotel was absent at the time. Mr. M. R. Grierson, for defendants, said that both recognised their liability, but he asked that they be treated leniently, as he considered the circumstances were extenuating. Ihc stoiy told to the barman to induce him to sell the wine had been a true one. Ihe police had checked it up and found it so. He asked that the case against the licensee be dismissed. On the first charge Pollock was fined £3 and costs 10/, and Attwcll £5 and costs 10/. Both defendants were convicted on the second charge and ordered to pay costs 10/.