SUNDAY MORNING BEER IN WAIROA: BOTH SELLER & BUYER FINED

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22867, 10 February 1949, Page 6

SUNDAY MORNING BEER IN WAIROA: BOTH SELLER & BUYER FINED

(S.R.) WAIROA. Feb, 30. .That the conviction was the first in 10 years during which he had held the license was pleaded in defence of Ernest Lane, licensee of the Ferry Hotel, Wairoa, in a case brought in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday when he was charged with supplying liquor after hours.

The defendant entered a plea of guilty and was fined £3 by Mr. L. G. H. Sinclair, S.M. For the police, Senior-Sergeant C. Mcßae said that shortly after midday on Sunday, December 5, a man named Davis was seen leaving the hotel carrying three bottles of beer under his arm. The defendant admitted supplying the liquor. Mr. M. H. Tonkinson, for the defence, said that Lane had been busy in the garden when the man Davis “pestered" him for a beer, saying he wanted it for himself and his father. Finally he had supplied it. This was Lane’s first offence and he had held a license for 10 years . Noel Reginald Davis, Wairoa, to whom the liquor was supplied, pleaded guilty to a charge of aiding the licensee to supply liquor after hours. A fine of £1 and costs was imposed.