Media club discharged
.Charges against the (Christchurch Media Club of selling liquor without a licence and with allowing liquor to be consumed on its Chancery Lane premises had been "a technical breach,” i Judge McAldon has said in j the District Court. I
He discharged ‘ the club without, conviction and made no order for costs in favour of the prosecution. ... Sergeant M. P. Caldwell said that, when a police party visited the club at 1I;I5 p.m. on October 24 42 persons were found on the premises and drinks were being served. Mr J. R. Milligan for the club, said a . charter had been granted by the Licens-j ihg Control-Commission, but; it had not been uplifted. I
It. was a case where the club’s charter was on a file in Wellington rather than on a wall in Christchurch, he said. Since the offence the charter had been uplifted.
The Judge reld that the loffences were of a technical 'nature and could in no way ibe described as a blatant: (breach of the Sale of Liquor [Act.
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