POLICE COURT
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12. (Bforo Mr J. R. Bartholomew, S.M.) DRUNKENNESS. A first offender was fined 20s, in default forty-eight hours’ imprisonment. LIQUOR AFTER HOURS. Ernest Albert O’Malley was charged with soiling liquor after hours, and his son, Jack O’Malley, was charged that, being a person other than the licensee, he sold liquor after hours. Senior-sergeant Quartermain said that as a result of complaints received ho sent two men out to the hotel after hours and they were served with liquor by the licensee’s son. The licensee himself was in Christchurch at the time. Mr A. G. Neill, who appeared for the .defendants, said that the licensee was in Christchurch attending a fire brigade demonstration when the house was visited, and his son, Bert, was in charge of the premises. Unfortunately, on the day concerned, Bert was not well and he had given the keys to his brother Jack, who was spending a holiday at the hotel. It was Jack who served the policemen. A fine of £5 and costs was inflicted in each case, the Magistrate remarking that the licensee was responsible _ for the acts of his servants, especially when ho was his own son.
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Evening Star, Issue 20022, 13 November 1928, Page 8
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