LICENSING BREACHES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21906, 15 September 1934, Page 18

LICENSING BREACHES

LIQUOR SOLD AFTER HOURS FINE OF £2O IMPOSED Breaches of the Licensing Act at the Empire Hotel on August 5 led to the appearance, in the Police Court yesterday of the licensee, Matthew Doran, and eight other defendants. Doran, who was represented by Mr. Terry, pleaded guilty to selling liquor after hours, and the barman, Ernest Hayward, to supplying liquor after hours. Inspector Edwards said that at 8.25 p.m. Sergeant Felton and Constable Agnew visited the hotel, and found 13 men in the private bar. Twelve bad glasses of liquor in front of them, but five of the men were bona fide lodgers. Asked for an explanation, the barman said he thought the •thers were guests of the lodgers. The licensee was convicted on May 5 for selling liquor after hours, and was fined £5. In imposing a fine of £2O, with 19s costs, on the licensee, Mr. W. R. McKean, S.M., said there would have been no great difficulty in finding out whether the men were the guests of the lodgers. There was no doubt that the licensee had been too careless. The barman, Hayward, was fined £2 with 10s costs, and six of the men found on the premises were fined £1 with 10s costs. The seventh man, John Francis O'Grady, for breach of a prohibition order and giving a false name, wias fined £4 with £2 costs.