POLICE COURT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15552, 9 March 1914, Page 5

POLICE COURT NEWS.

CASES OF INSOBRIETY.

When a first offender was charged in the Police Court on Saturday with being drunk and refusing to quit the Grosvenor Hotel when requested to do so, he denied that be had had more than a " squash and soda" to drink, and said that he wai almost a teetotaller, and therefore quite at a loss to know why he had been ejected from the hotel.

The licensee and the barman of the hotel both testified that when the man came into tho bar he was drunk. He was therefore requested to leave, but as he refused to do so he was ejected. So often did he return to the bar, only to be ejected, that a. constable was sent for. The constable, in his evidence, also swore that the man had had more liquor than was good for him. Mr. F. V. Frazer, S.M., said that he was satisfied tho accused had had too much to drink, although he may not have been very drunk. The licensee of an hotel, he added, had the power to order anyone to leave the bar, whether he was drunk or not. On the charge of drunkenness the accused would be convicted and discharged, while on the charge of refusing to quit he would be fined £1, and 12s costs. Insobriety was the cause of four first offenders being fined 5s each, whilst another first offender who did not appear was fined £1, the amount of his bail Joseph Williams, who was convicted of being drunk for the fifth time within the last six months, and also of the sixth breach of his prohibition order, was sent to Roto Roa for a year. Having been found drunk whilst in charge of a horse and cart, Alfred Gowdare was fined 30s