LICENSING CHARGES

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29956, 18 October 1962, Page 19

LICENSING CHARGES

Fines Imposed At Lyttelton Ronald Alfred Miller, licensee of the Lyttelton Hotel, was fined £l2 10* for selling liquor after hours when he appeared before Mr E. S. J. Crutchley in the Magistrate's Court at Lyttelton yesterday. Fines of £3 each for being found unlawfully on licensed premises were imposed on Francis Noel Hardwick. James Edward Kelly. Patrick Meagher. Stanley Porteous. Leonard Henry Moss. Magnus Flaws, James Robert Cleghorn. Francis James Hopkins. Arthur Emeat Hawkins. Robert Knowles and Harry Thomas. Hawkins. Knowles and Thomas were also fined £5 each for falsely representing themselves to be lodgers. Similar charges against Alan George McDougall were dismissed, and a charge against Joseph Thomas Mitchell of being unlawfully on licensed premises wa* adjourned. A barman, Clarence Ernest Paulger, was fined £4 tor supplying liquor after hours. June Carona Monk. licensee of the Royal Hotel. Lyttelton, was fined £7 for selling liquor after hours.

A charge against Joseph Guy Raoul Dalgneault, licensee of the British Hotel. Lyttelton, of selling liquor after hours was dismissed under Section 42 of the Criminal Justice Act, subject to payment of costs. Charged with unlawfully getting into a motor-car. Douglas John Allen, who pleaded guilty, was released on probation for two years and ordered to pay £6 13s 4d for damage done to the vehicle.

Fines were imposed as follows in traffic eases:— No driving licence: John Warren Huxford, £3; failure to produce driving licence, John Lester. £1; no warrant of fitness. George Tomlin*, £1 10s; exceeding 30 miles an hour: Alexander Carter. £5; John Chalmers. £5.