PRESIDENT AS BARMAN.
WORKING MEN'S CLUB. DRINKING AFTER HOURS. THIRTY-SIX MEN IN BAR. [BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] NAPIER. Monday. As a sequel to a police raid on tho Napier Working Mon's Club 011 the evening of March 27, John Edward Hughes, the president, pleaded guilty to unlawfully supplying persons with liquor, and Ilarry Russell .Ayres, tho secretary, pleaded not guilty to keeping the club premises open during prohibited hours tor the sale and consumption of liquor.
Tho police entered at the back and found 36 members in the bar, and the president, with his coat off, serving them. Tho secretary held the key to tho bar, but tho president had a duplicate. Ayres was away and had given Hughes no authority' to sell liquor. Tho latter shouldered all responsibility for tho offence. Judgment was reserved.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19027, 26 May 1925, Page 12
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