DRINKS IN RESTAURANT
MAN FINED £IOO IN CITY YOUNG WOMEN PATRONS (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. Purchases of drink on three occasions by police officers, followed by a search of the premises occupied by tlffe Persian Garden restaurant in the city, were described when the proprietress and her husband and an employee appeared before Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., in the Police Court to-day on a total of eight charges of offences against the licensing laws. The restaurant was described by Sub-Inspector Scott, who prosecuted, as “a. moral menace,” through men taking young women to drink there. The defendants, for whom Air. F. W. Schramm appeared, altered their pleas from not guilty to guilty after hearing the police evidence. Mrs. MacGregor, the proprietress, was fined £lO and her -husband was fined £IOO, and an employee named Currcy was fined £2.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19136, 3 October 1936, Page 15
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141DRINKS IN RESTAURANT Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19136, 3 October 1936, Page 15
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