Cliff Tragedy Follows Hotel Drinking Bout
LICENSEE FINED LIQUOR TO YOUTHS UNDER 21 Press Association CTIRISTC HTrRC H, To-day, The -licensee of the Heatheote Arms -Lotel, Grace Ann Moore, and Joseph Lewis . Gestro, barman at the hotel, each faced in the Magistrate’s Court this morning three charges of having supplied liquor, to persons under 21 years* of age; Sub-Inspector Fitzpatrick said that after getting drinks, .some- youths set out over Sumner cliffs for Taylor’s Mistake. Three of them, arrived there, but the fourth, William James Mowbray, did not. His body was found at the bottom of the cliff. The licensee was fined £6 and costs, _~nd the charges against the barman were dismissed. The magistrate said that the offence was made more disastrous by the dqath of Mowbray, whose death ivas. due .to .the amount of liquor he had. .obtained at the hotel or elsewhere
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 530, 6 December 1928, Page 1
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145Cliff Tragedy Follows Hotel Drinking Bout Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 530, 6 December 1928, Page 1
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