CONVICTION OF LICENSEE

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21124, 27 March 1934, Page 7

CONVICTION OF LICENSEE

I i:vii)i;.NTi: hki.d to hk i I NRKI.IAIH.I'. ! j In a use vol decision yiven m the j Magistrate's Cuui't yesterday. Mr F. jD. IMoslev convicted Vincent Stewart j Colliding, the licensee of the Foresters' Arms Hotel, on three charges selling ! liquor after hours. oncnim'. Ins 1 ' licensed prcniis"., for the sale ol liquor afUT hours, and exposing liquor for sale after hours. After rcvicwim; the cav. m wiiich a serseant and two police constables cave evidence ot visilitm the hotel at 10 p.m. on January 12 and lindim: several men there. Mr Mosley said that he could come to no other conclusion than that the evidence of the licensee and of a witness in the case, Ivy Quimi, was unreliable. In his opinion, the evidence showed that neither Goldinn nor Taylor 'two of the men said lo have been found in the hotel t. had really become, at the time of the police raid, a lodger. I,vine, or stavim; in the premise.,. At the time the liquor was supplied to Holding he had not, in Mr Mosloy's opinion, even reached the sta.ue of securing a contract cntitlum him to no and' stay there Referring te entries in a boarder si book. Mr Mosley said that an exam-j ination led liim to believe that all the entries, from January 2 to January 12. were written by the same per-1 son at the same time. 1 ; .Mortgagees' Tears ! 1 Mi- D. I-!. YV'anklyii. who appeared i ijor the mortLtaueos of the property,! said that in view of previous con-1 viclions against the licensee, the niortI trainees were apprehensive of the position. He asked that imposition ol any | penalties be positioned to enable the j I Diorißai'ces and the licensee to cornel to an arrangement to .carry on thei premises aeenrdin;: lo the law. Any action which might be taken about, thei licensee would probably do some injustice and possibly harm to persons j who were not responsible for thej offence. Mr Wanklyn said. ! Mr F. D. Sargent, who represented | the defendant, said that his client had i invested a Rood ileal of money in the! business and might, desire to take thej matter to another court. He also asked ' that the fixing of penalties be delayed.' Mr Mosley reserved the decision on penalties until April 5.