COURTS AND OFFENCES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 6 December 1928, Page 9

COURTS AND OFFENCES.

A LICENSEE FINED

(By T-leeraj'h—Press Association.)

CHRISTCHURCH, Dec. 6. In the Magistrates Court, Grace Ann Moore, licensee of Heathcote Arms Hotel, and Joseph Lewis Gestro, barman at the hotel, each faced three charges of having supplied liquor to persons under 21 years of age. Sub-Inspector Fitzpatrick said that after getting liquor the youths set out over Sumner cliffs for Taylor’s mistake, three of them arriving there, but the fourth, William James Mowbray, did not, his body being found at the bottom of a cliff. The licensee was fined £6 and costs, and the charges again the barman were dismissed. The magistrate said that the matter was made more disastrous by the death of Mowbray, whose death was due to the amount of liquor he had obtained at the hotel or elsewhere. ALLEGED BREAKING AND ENTERING.

PALMERSTON N., Dec. 6. During the last weekend the premises of Christie, tobacconist, Rangitikei St., were broken into and a safe containing a considerable sum of money 7 was removed, in addition to a large quantity of stock. This morning, Detective Barling arrested James Morton McGill, aged 26, a car salesman of Dannevirke, who was charged with breaking and entering the premises and removing therefrom a safe containing £44 in cash, and £23 in cheques. On accused being remanded to December 14, counsel applied for bail, which Senior Detective Quirke opposed. The safe,. lie said, had not yet been traced, the principal evidence against the accused at present being finger prints found on the premises. The bench refused to grant bail.