OWNER'S SON IN HOTEL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20364, 19 September 1929, Page 14

OWNER'S SON IN HOTEL.

NIGHT VISIT BY POLICE.

PENALTY FOR LICENSEE

[BY TELEGRAPH.—OWN CORRESPONDENT.] NEW PLYMOUTH. Wcdnoadny.

Judgment iri a case in which J. T. Gardiner, licenseo of tho Grosvenor Hotel, was charged with unlawfully keeping open his premises for the sale ftf liquor after hours and with unlawfully exposing liquor for sale, was given by Mr. R. W. Tate, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court to-day. On May 18 a Sergeant visited tho hotel in tho evening and found tho licensee and three men in tho bar. Two of the men were boarders and were entitled to be served with liquor, and tho case concerned the presence of the third man, who said that ho had gono (hero on behalf of his father, tho owner of the hotel, to attend to a beer-pump of which complaint had been made by the licensee. Tho mngistralo said that ho was unable to accept tho evidenco for tho defendant on that point, and he believed that tho visitor was there for the purposo of obtaining liqnor. Ho therefore convicted the defendant of exposing liquor unlawfully, and the police withdrew tho other information. A fine of £3 was inflicted, with 10s costs.