ASLEEP UNDER RUG

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 667, 20 May 1929, Page 11

ASLEEP UNDER RUG

TENNIS CLUB PAVILION AS DORMITORY DANGER OF FIRE It was pointed out to Ray Beasley at the Police Court this morning that neither the Auckland Lawn Tennis Association nor the police look with favour on the use of the pavilion at the Stanley Street courts as a dormitory. Beasley, an electrician, aged 2S. ! pleaded guilty to being found on the j enclosed premises of the association at Stanley Street. He was described by j McCarthy as not the sort of young I man who should be allowed about the city at night. He was found in the | small hours this morning asleep in the pavilion under a rug. “The rug is a horse cover, but we have not yet traced it,” added the sub-inspector. Beasley had been there three nights, and the practice of men sleeping in such places had caused the police a great deal of trouble. Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M.: There is always the danger of fire. The probation officer, Mr. W. J. Campbell, mentioned that Beasley was at present on licence, and had another four or five months of his original sentence to finish. “I think he had better go back to ; gaol and finish his time,” added the ! magistrate. Beasley was remanded until tomorrow for sentence, and in the meantime the probation officer will ; prepare a report on the man.