ROTTEN EGGS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 25, 12 January 1912, Page 5

ROTTEN EGGS.

IN CHRISTCHURCH AT ELECTION TIME.

(Per Press Association.)

Christchurch, January 11. The Christchurch Licensing Committee sat to-day to hear a complaint, lodged against Warner’s Hotel, that, on general election night, rotton eggs were thrown from the building. The evidence of the police was to the effect that eggs were thrown from the balcony or some other part of the building, where people congregated to see the posting of the election results For the defence, evidence was called to prove that no eggs were thrown. The committee retired to considei their finding, and on returning the chairman (Rev. R. S. Gray), said the committee considered the police were abundantly justified in bringing the charge. They did not for a moment agree that the matter was a storm in a tea-cup, as had been suggested. The committee believed that the po’ico had quite proved their case. The evidence led for the defence was purely negative, and the accepted absolutely the evidence given by the police as to the facts. The committee did not think that tho licensee, Mr Palmer, was personilly connected with the offences, and they made allowance for the fact that it was election night, and that Mr Palmer could not exorcise tho same supervision over the hotel that he was supposed to do- and presumably lid on ordinary occasions. The committee reprehended very strongly the language which Air Palmer is declared to have used to the police, and which had not boon denied bv him. The committee disapproved also of tho suggestion which Mr Palmer made to Sergeant Miller, that if the sergeant waited upon him in privito clothes he would find him a man. The committee bold very strongly that that should not bo the attitude of a licensee of a public house to any police officer, for an officer of the police was iil-ways an officer of the police so fails a public bouse was concerned. 'l’he committee did not think they were justified in taking any action in regard to the licensee, in view of tho special circumstances of the ease, but iin-- believed five police wore absolutely justified in bringing the charge, ard that on 11 io evidence the charge would be upheld.