SUNDAY LIQUOR TRADE

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 12 March 1928, Page 4

SUNDAY LIQUOR TRADE

SUGGESTION IN COURT. “Apparently there is some illicit trading in liquor going on on Sundays, though the defendant refuses to say where he procured- liquor other tnan that he obtained it on Saturday,” said Sergeant Henry in the Hawera Police Court this morning, when, for the second time within six months, William George Hall, a. labourer, 40 years of age. pleaded guilty to a charge of drunkenness. Defendant was arrested in Princes Street at 8.40 o’clock last evening. The occasion was, the second withinthree months of a charge of drunkenness on a Sunday, explained- the sergeant, though previously -such a. thing had been unknown in Hawera for eight and a half years. Mr. L. A. Bone, J.P., who presided, concurred in the opinion that apparently -supply was being made available on the Sabbath. “You keep away from hotels on Sundays,” he said- to defendant in inflicting a. fine- of £l, in default seven days. Defendant, who said he had a job to go to in the country and would also draw his military pension on the 23rd )of the month, was allowed until that date- to- pay the fine.