LICENSING LAWS
CLUB PREMISES OPEN AFTER HOURS.
(EJ TELEGRAPH.—PItESS ASSOCIATION.) NAPIER, 25th May. As a'-sequel to a police raid on the Napier Working Men's Club on the night Of 27th March, John Edward Hughes, president, pleaded guilty to unlawfully .supplying persons with liquor, and Henry Russell Ayres, secretary, pleaded not guilty to keeping the club premises open during prohibited hours for the salo and consumption of liquor. The police had entered by the back way, and found 36 members in the bar, and the president with' his coat off serving them.
The secretary held the keys to the bar, but the president had a duplicate. Ayres was away and had given Hughes no authority to sell liquor. The latter shouldered all the responsibility for the offence. Judgsncnt was reserved.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 121, 26 May 1925, Page 11
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129LICENSING LAWS Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 121, 26 May 1925, Page 11
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