LIQUOR AFTER HOURS
MAGISTRATE'S COMMENT
"For everyone caught In hotels after hours, I suppose that there are fifty who commit the offence," said Mr. E. D Mosley, S.M., at the quarterly'meeting of the Wellington Licensing Committee yesterday. Mr. Mosley said that the men who entered hotels after h ours encouraged licensees..' to commit breaches of the law, and were as much, if not more, to blame than the licensees. The maximum fine for that class of offence was £2, irrespective ,of« the number of convictions. ■■■.•• - ; . With Mr. Mosley on the bench were Messrs. A. Longmore, W. H. Den ton, R. Darroch, and F. P. Walsh. Sub-Inspec-tor C E. Roach, who represented the police, said that apart from after-hours trading, there was nothing to add to his report. There had been about'3o convictions -for, after-hours trading in the last quarter. . . .". Mr. Mosley said' that the reports on the majority; of the hotels was1 good. Some were only.fair.. , . , . A transfer of the licence of the Brunswick Hotel, from Robert Berry : ; man to Charles Sylvester - Hoare, was granted. ■'■■ ' ■ : v •.■■■' . /
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 51, 2 March 1937, Page 16
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176LIQUOR AFTER HOURS Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 51, 2 March 1937, Page 16
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