SEQUEL TO RAID

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22909, 11 December 1937, Page 20

SEQUEL TO RAID

SLY-GROG CASES f MEN AND WOMEN FINED COMMENT ON. PENALTY * "The cost of sinning has not gone up," said Mr. C. 11. Orr Walker, S.M., when 30 men and nine women were charged in the Police Court yesterday with bfeing found on the unlicensed premises of the Ixion Club, Kingston Street, City, on October 15, when they were being used for the sale of liquor. The magistrate remarked that the maximum penalty for the offence was £2, but it had been fixed about 60 years ago, when money was worth two or three times more than it was now.

The against two of the men, who pleaded not guilty,, were dismissed. Tho remainder of the mon were fined £2 and costs, and all tho women were finod £1 and costs, Tines Imposed The men fined were Clarence Ivan Kenworthy, Joseph Lee, Joseph William Kelly, Albert Walsh, Albert Edward O'Brien, Leslie Kenneth Walker, John Joseph Corby, John Murphy, Henry Lee, John David Urquhart. John Bennett, Spery Biggins, Harold Hiscock, Daniel Green, Walter James Buchanan, Charles Parker, William Muir, William Nornstrand, Joseph Selwyn Hubber, Wallace Deaken Penny, Kenneth Malcolm McDonald, Cyril Pauling, William Hammond Shorter, Ralph Urlich Catton, Henry James Foster, Edward McFarland, Stanley Webb and John Richardson. Richardson was' also fined £1 and costs for giving a false name. Tho woujen fined wero Mabel Lucas (Mr. Aekins), Elaine Gordon Beart, Doreen Curtis, Mary Johns, Mary Gwendoline Turner, Gladys Hengstberger, Rene Violet Heron, Elsie Clarke (Mr.. Simson) and Mabel Purdy .(Mr. Townsend).

Sub-Inspector Fox said there was nothing very special about tho cases, but the place had been a notorious grog-shop. Mr. Aekins said w tho girl Lucas had been asked to a dance by a youug msln, who took her to the club. She wanted to leave, but the police arrived before sho could do so. "Concession for Ladies"

For his client Mr. Sirason asked for the "usual concession for .the ladies." "The equality of the' sexes is passing away," observed the magistrate. . . Charles Purdy and Archibald" Leslie, both represented by Mr. Townsond, pleaded not guilty. Purdy said in evidence that he mot Leslie, who arrived from the country, at tho station at 10.50 p.m. When they got homo Mrs. Purdy asked them to go to the club and bring home her daughter, Mabel Purdy. When witness arrived he asked for his sister, and the doorkeeper told him to go upstairs and look for her. Ho had been "lecturher for some minutes when the police arrived. Neither" witness nor Leslie had any drink. „ "Their actions were very naturin, said the magistrate, dismissing the ' charges. "