POLICE VISIT HOTEL

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22591, 22 December 1938, Page 7

POLICE VISIT HOTEL

LICENSEE AND SON FINED

NINE PERSONS FOUND ON PREMISES AFTER HOURS

After a raid made by the Lyttelton police on the Ocean View Hotel, Governor's Bay, on the night of December 3, the licensee and her son and nine other persons appeared before Mr F. F. Reid, S.M., at the Lyttelton Magistrate's Court yesterday. Catherine Mary Magee, the licensee, was charged with selling liquor after hours and Ronald Stanley Magee was charged with supplying liquor after hours. Mr F. D. Sargent appeared for the defendants, who pleaded guilty. Senior-Sergeant D. Wilson said that at 9.30 p.m. on December 3 he visited the Ocean View Hotel, in company with two constables. He met Mrs Magee at the door and, in reply to his question, she admitted that there were persons illegally on the premises. When he entered the hotel he found some men in the bar, where Mrs Magee's son was serving them, and three young men and three young women in a side room. All had drinks in front of them with the exception of one girl. There was a dance at Allendale that night and apparently the young people had come from the danc& to the hotel. Mr Sargent said that it was an isolated breach. Mrs Magee had always conducted the hotel in a proper manner.

The Magistrate said that as the defendants had conducted' the hotel satisfactorily in the past, he would not impose the usual penalty. Mrs Magee

would be fined £5 and the son £3. both defendants being ordered to pay costs.

Bequest Granted

For being on the hotel premises after hours, John Theodore Gebbie, John Osborne and Thomas E. Mason were each convicted and fined 20s and ordered to pay costs.

Colin McKay Wilkins, Arthur William Lack, another young man and three young women, whose names were subsequently ordered to be suppressed, made voluntary appearances* on charges of being on the hotel premises after hours. The senior-sergeant said that they were the party found in the sideroom. The three young women had

asked him to convey to the Court a request that their names be suppressed. One of the young men said he and one of the young women were to be married this week and he asked that the names of.the whole party be suppressed as the publication of their names might cause some embarrassment at the wedding.

The Magistrate said that each of the young women would be convicted and ordered to pay costs. In consideration of their making a voluntary appearance, each of the men would be fined 10s and ordered to pay costs. "One of the defendants has put forth a novel excuse for the suppression of his name and the request will be granted so far as he and the three

women are concerned," said the Magistrate.

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