After-hours drinker hid in toilet

Press, 3 February 1982, Page 4

After-hours drinker hid in toilet

PA Auckland The police found a woman drinking behind a hotel bar after the hotel had closed, the District Court at Auckland was told. The woman, June Sylvia Christie, aged 36, unemployed of Mission Bay, pleaded guilty to a charge of being found without lawful excuse, but in circumstances that did not disclose the commission of or an intention to commit any other offence, in the DB Waitemata Hotel in Albert Street. Sergeant Richard Davison, said that Christie was drinking at the DB Waitemata Hotel in Albert Street. Just before closing time she went to the women’s lavatories and stayed there until the hotel closed and the patrons and staff left. About 12.05 a.m. the police

responded to a silent alarm installed on the premises. Mr Davison said that Christie was found in an “intoxicated state” drinking behind the bar area of the premises. She gave no explanation, for her actions and refused to supply details of her name and address. She was then arrested. For Christie, Mr Roger Chambers said that her state of intoxication had been such that she had not known whether she was in the women’s or men’s lavatories. She stayed in there for some time and when she came out found the place was closed. She went behind the bar. and apparently helped herself to a drink while “ponder-. ing her fate,” Mr Chambers said. Judge Callander convicted and fined Christie $4O.