LIQUOR NEAR DANCE
INCIDENT AT KAIHERE
PATETONGA MAN FINED £5
For having liquor in the vicinity of a dance hall at Kaihere when a dance was in progress, Alexander John Hat-, well, farmhand, of Patetonga, was fined £5 by Mr W. H. Freeman, S.M., in the Thames Magistrate’s Court. He pleaded guilty. ’ Constable R. W. Beasley, of Kerepeehi, described -finding six bottles of beer in defendant’s possession on the other side of the road from the dance hall. -Defendant admitted that it was his.
“I suppose you know there is a heavy penalty attached to this,” said the magistrate. “You will do these things and you know the consequences. Keep liquor away from /dances.”
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 54, Issue 32536, 14 February 1945, Page 5
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