COUNTRY CLUB PROPRIETOR FINED.
FOR SUNDAY TRADING. Christchurch, October’2B. Convicted on each of six charges of Sunday trading, Douglas Palmer Claridge, proprietor of Glaridge’s Country Club, was fined a total of £ls and costs in the Magistrate’s Court this morning. Clarklgo was charged on six counts with keeping an open house known as Claridge’s Country Club on different Sundays for the purpose of transacting business. In a reserved judgment, Mr E. D. Mosley, S.M., described Claridge’s premises as “an alleged club” and said he did not attach any legal importance to the allegation that it was a club. Mr Mosley said he considered that Claridge, by providing an . entertainment show on Sundays, as was shown in evidence, was transacting his business within the meaning of the Act. It is noticed that an alleged member of the club may take in three male visitors, together with partneis, said the Magistrate. These visitors indulge in dancing, drinking liquor and the consumption of refreshments.”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 4409, 25 October 1934, Page 3
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161COUNTRY CLUB PROPRIETOR FINED. Manawatu Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 4409, 25 October 1934, Page 3
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