INSTRUCTIONS DISOBEYED

Evening Star, Issue 19857, 4 May 1928, Page 5

INSTRUCTIONS DISOBEYED

LICENSEE CHARGED SACREDNESS OF ANZAC DAY An hotelkeeper anxious to observe the of Anzac Day, but a barman who thought he was entitled to serve two friends of the bar-porter led to David Charles Jolly, licensee of the Provincial Hotel, being charged with selling liquor on licensed premises after hours. William Laws was charged that, being a person other than the licensee, he supplied liquor to Joseph Campbell and Francis Trouson Dodd after hours. Mr B. S. Irwin appeared for both defendants, and said that the facts would be admitted. Sub-inspector Fahey said that on April 25, Anzac Day, Sergeant M'Carthy had entered the Provincial Hotel, and in the house bar upstairs he found the two defendants. Thev had drinks, and the barman admitted having sold them. Jolly entered the bar, and appeared to be surprised at finding the men in the bar. Mr Irwin said that Jolly’s family had done considerable work in connection with the war, and Jolly was very careful that Anzac Day should be looked on as a sacred day. he had refused two men drinks upstairs, who later turned out to be boaiders. The barman had been left in charge of the servery upstairs, with the distinct instruction that he was to serve none but boarders, and not to encourage even boarders. A barman-porter and two friends went to the bar, and the barman, really thinking he was entitled to do so, got them three drinks. “ When it happened Jolly was in great distress,” said Mr Irwin, “ because after priding himself on his instructions in the matter and on the record of his family, he felt the indignity of being responsible so far as the barman was concerned. Laws was fined £3 and costs and Jolly 20s and costs. Arising out of the case Joseph Campbell and Francis Trouson Dodd, who were charged with being unlawfully on licensed premises after hours, were each fined 20s and costs.