LICENSEE FINED
LIQUOR SOLD ON NEW YEAR'S EVE
A visit, paid; by the police to the Railway Hotel, Lower Hutt, at 11.35 p.m. on December 31, resulted-in the licensee, Samuel George Platt, being charged before Mr. W. V. Stilwellj S.M., in the Lower Hutt Court today, with selling liquor - after hours; Platt pleadod guilty, and was lined £5.
Sergeant J. W. McHolm said that whon tho police went into: the hotel they t'ound Ehe bar-room doors locked, but two men were hiding behind the counter. It was admitted that'they had each been supplied with a drink.
the defenco, Mr. J. J. McGrath said that two men had come to the si do door of the hotel and asked for a drink, and ..as it wasi iust on midnight on New Year's Eve, Platt had' obliged them. ...... ■ " ■ ■ >'
'In imposing a fillc, the Magistrate said that he could not take any notice of the fact that the'time of the offence was New Year's Eve.
The two men who were found on the premise's after hours, Charles Brady and Pierco James Carroll, wMe each fined £1. ■■'..;
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 8, 10 January 1934, Page 9
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183LICENSEE FINED Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 8, 10 January 1934, Page 9
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