DRINKING NEAR DANCE

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 32310, 8 September 1943, Page 5

DRINKING NEAR DANCE

THREE MEN FINED £5 EACH PARTY CAUGHT IN PAEROA ■Fines totalling £l5 were imposed upon three Tauranga men, Arthur Raymond Wright, William Lockhart Sutherland and Colin Camphell Flint by Mr W. H. Freeman, S.M., when they were charged in the Paeroa Court on Monday with being in possession of liquor in the vicinity of a dance hall while a dance was in progress. All pleaded guilty to the offence by letter. ■Constable J. L. Brown stated that on August 7 he had been on duty near the Civic Hall, Paeroa, while a dance was in progress and he had noticed three men drinking in a car outside the hall. When he had searched the car he had found 12 bottles of beer, three cartons and a bottle of wine together with a number of empty beer bottles.

“Evidently the men who were all from Tauranga were having a party,” added Constable Brown, explaining that the incident had occurred the evening of the Thames races in Paeroa. The beer had been purchased by the party as they came through from Tauranga to Paeroa. The Magistrate lined each man £5 with costs I'Os in each . case.