OFFENCE IN HOTEL

New Zealand Herald, Volume 81, Issue 25022, 12 October 1944, Page 4

OFFENCE IN HOTEL

I INTOXICATED MAN SERVED INVERCARGILL INCIDENT (P.A.) INVERCAI?GILL, Wednesday The manager of one of the Licensing Trust hotels was charged in the Magistrate's Court today with selling liquor to an intoxicated person and the barman with supplying liquor to the same man. Both cases created a good deal of public interest. . "The Invercargill Licensing Trust is operating these hotels Tinder an Act the intention of which is to establish model hotels," said Mr C. R. Abernethv, S.M., "and I have no doubt the trust is at some pains to attain the object set out by the Act. That means that managers of hotels first, and barmen after them, have to be more than ordinarily careful about the sale of liquor. "As counsel properly points out, there is not the same incentive to a barman under the trust to sell liquor to men who should not have it as there is" to licensees in the ordinary way who want to make more than they should out of the failings of drinkers. There may not be the same incentive, but as far as this Court is concerned I shall use that section when it is brought before me to inilict heavy penalties, not light ones, on barmen who fail to measure up to their obligations in this manner. If a barman serves a man who should not be ha vine liquor, there is no question that the Court can, should and will impose a heavy penalty." The magistrate added that he thought the barman, who admitted he had seen the man coming: into the bar, should have had sufficient observation to make up his mind that the man was in such a state that lie should not have been served. The Act aimed at model hotels and they could not have model hotels if this sort of thing went on. The barmen owed this duty to the trust. They had a right to exercise their judgment and power. If they did that they would not have these cases of drunkenness, such as they had had in Court in the last few weeks. The manager was fined £6. with costs 10s, and the barman £3, with costs 10s. LONDON STAFF BONUS QUESTION IN PARLIAMENT TORPEDOED SOLDIERS* LOSSES (S.R.) WELLINGTON, Wednesday The report that a monetary grant had been made to members of the staff of New Zealand House in London as the Government's appreciation of their loyal service during the blitz and flying bomb attacks was referred to in notice of a question by Mr E. B. Corbett (Opposition—Egnioiit) in the House of Representatives today. He asked the Minister of Defence, Mr .Jones, if the Government would extend similar appreciation to New Zealand Army personnel torpedoed on their journey to New Zealand from service overseas with a complete loss of personal possessions. "Claims recently Todgcd by members of the First Echelon torpedoed in the Indian Ocean for payment for losses sustained were not sympathetically received by the Government," said Mr Corbett in a note to his question. "One claim for £25 sterling was met by a payment of £8 0s 3d New Zealand currency, and other larger claims were even less favourably considered." SHIPS STILL DELAYED HEAVY SEAS AT GREYMOUTH (0.C.) GREYMOUTH, Wednesday A considerable sea was running on the Grevmouth bar again today, and effectively closed the port. The Kiwitea and Gabriella with cargoes for Wellington were held up for the fourth day, also the Rata for Nelson. The Ivaimai, which is also to load coal for Wellington, arrived in the roadstead last evening, but has been unable to enter the port. PUBLIC BEQUESTS WILLS OF AUCKLANDERS Provision for bequests of a public nature is made in three wills of which probate lias recently been granted. After private bequests have been satisfied the residue of the estate of Miss Helen Aitken Lamb, whose death occurred on September 2, is to be divided equally between the Epsom Methodist Sundav School and the Epsom Methodist Cliurch new organ fund. The estate has been valued for probate at under £IO,OOO. Bequests of £IOO to the Patea Hospital Board, £2,5 to the Patea Presbyterian Church and £25 to the Mission to Lepers, London, are made in the will of Mr John Francis Williamson, who died on August 5. He left an estate of £20,000. A retired builder, of Mount Eden, Mr William Jones, has left £25 to the Good Shepherd branch of the St Vincent de Paul Society, Auckland, and £25 to the Little Sisters of the Poor. His death occurred on July 18 and the estate has been valued at £9400. Bequests of £2OO to the Auckland Hospital Board and £IOO to the New Zealand Institute for the Blind, to be used for general charitable purposes, were made under the wijl of the late Mr John Oliver, of Auckland, probate of which has been granted to the Public Trustee. Mr Oliver died in Auckland on August 1. WAIKATO TRAIN SERVICE (0.C.) HAMILTON, Wednesday Some confusion exists regarding the running of trains between Hamilton and Auckland. The Hamilton stationmaster, Mr A. Smith, said today that the only recent change was the lestoration of the evening Hamilton-Auckland train, which left Bo torn a in the afternoon and passed through Hamilton en route to Auckland daily at 8.10. The RotoruaAucklaud expresses ran each way on Mondays, Wednesday:- and Fridays, and the Taneatua-Auekland expresses ran each way oil Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays,