LIQUOR LAW BREACHES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22961, 12 February 1938, Page 16

LIQUOR LAW BREACHES

- SALE AFTER HOURS HINDU AND LICENSEE "He is a poor, innocent looking 'chiel,' " said Mr. C. R. Orr Walker, S.M., when Kesha Nana, a Hindu, charged with aiding and abetting Michael Calahan in tho commission of an offence, appeared in the Police Court yesterday. Calahan (Mr. , McVeagli), who is licensee of the Carpenters' Arms Hotel, pleaded guilty to selling liquor after hours. . Senior-Sergeant CalwelJ said the Hindu was seen to go to the door of the hotel after hours, and hand something to tho licensee, who later came out and gave him two bottles of beer. When he said he could not read English, the charge against the Hindu was read,to him. The wording included the ipassage "aiding, abetting and procuring the commission of an offence." The Magistrate: Do you understand that?—Yes.

Tho magistrate, smiling: I don't believe you. > 1 Mr. McVeagh: He understands what beer is. . y

Mr. McVeagh said Calahan had been lin the trade for 11 years, being a ; licensee since. October, and theru had been n'o complaints about him. ' Chlahaar was fined £5 and costs.' . Remarking on. his , innocent appearance, tho .magistrate ordered Kesha Nana to pay costs. A BARMAN FINED t - TWO CHARGES ADMITTED Pleading guilty to two charges of supplying liquor after hours, James Smith (Mr. Selwyn Clark), a barman at the Queen's Ferry Hotel, was fined £5 and costs on one charge, and convicted and discharged on tlie other by Mr. C. "R. Orr Walker, S.M., in the Police Court yesterday. '-; < r;'-» Erie Fairclcmgh, Wilfred Pool and Robert Wade, for being unlawfully on tho premises after hours, were each fined £2 and costs.