AFTER-HOURS TRADING
LICENSEE FINED £lO VISITS BY THE POLICE Charged with soiling liquor after hours, Robert Baker Ashby, licensee of the Queen's Ferry Hotel (Mr. Selwyn Clarke), pleaded not guilty when ho appeared in the Police Court, before Mr. C. R. Orr Walker, S.M., yesterday. After lengthy evidence had been given by the police regarding three' jnon found on the premises at 10.'20 p.m. on January 20, the magistrate entered a conviction. "It is not suggested by the police that defendant is tho only one doing after-hours trading," said Sub-Inspec-tor Fox, "but he was warned last year by Air, Wyvern Wilson, S.M., not because of his convictions, but he is pretty persistent." Mr. Clarke said he did not suggest the police were harassing defendant, but in 29 days they had paid 32 visits to the hotel*, and none of tho visits resulted in prosecutions. The visits showed that tho police were suspicions. Defendant was fined £lO arid costs. The men found on the premises, Terence Connolly, William O'Donnell and Thomas Garry, were each fined £2 and costs.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22991, 19 March 1938, Page 22
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