TO FORFEIT LICENSE

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 114, 16 May 1942, Page 8

TO FORFEIT LICENSE

HOTEL PROPRIETOR

£10 FINE ALSO IMPOSED (0.C.) WHANGAREI, this day. "A month ago I delivered to Avey a warning as solemn and firm as I could make it," said Mr. R. Ferner,' S.M., in the Kaikohe Magistrate's Court yesterday, in fining George Augustus Avey, licensee of the Horeke Hotel £10 and ordering the forfeiture of his license on three charges of selling liquor after hours. Sergeant W. Sargent gave evidence that three men were in the bar and glasses containing beer were on the counter when the police entered at 9.45 p.m. Upon one admitting ownership of three unopened bottles the licensee became violently excited, 1 grabbing the bottles and saying: "You never bought them. The police won't let a man earn an honest living. The country is crying for revenue and you won't let us get it." For Avey, counsel said that two of the men dined with the licensee as his guests, and the third was repairing a power point in the bar. To one guest Avey presented a pair of spurs from the last war, and he shouted a drink to celebrate. The magistrate, in giving judgment, said he was satisfied the transaction was not innocent. Avev had been fined £10 for a similar offence within six months.