AFTER HOURS TRADE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23154, 28 September 1938, Page 13

AFTER HOURS TRADE

LICENSEE FINED £3 CASE AT PAPAKURA A visit by the police to the Globe. Hotel, Papakura, on the evening of August 6 had its sequel in the Papar kura Police Court yesterday,, when the licensee, William John Davidson Jack, was charged, before Mr. W. H. Freeman, S.M., with keeping open licensed" premises after hours and' exposing liquor for sale. - Six men and two women were also: charged with being on licensed premises after hours. They were each fined 10s and costs. • Sergeant J. T. Cowan, of Pukekohe, - who prosecuted, said that when the police entered the premises a few; minutes after nine o'clock on the evening concerned, a number of persons was found in the lounge, where liquor was exposed for sale. The licensee's wife was washing glasses when the police' entered. * ' Mr. S. D. Rice, who appeared for the licensee, said this was- 4 the firstoccasion on which his client had been • charged under the Licensing Act. The Magistrate: It seems strange that the police should visit the premiseg the onlv time liquor was being sold. v."-" Mr. "Rice: It would be foolish for me' to sav that there was not a certain amount of after-hours trading in this country—and it is not always the licensee who is to blaine. On the charge of keeping °P?Q licensed premises, Jack was_ fined J2:and costs, and for exposing liquor, was fined £1 and costs.