BEER FOR CONQUERORS

Taranaki Daily News, 11 July 1929, Page 8

BEER FOR CONQUERORS

AFTERMATH OF TUG-OF-WAR EXPENSIVE CUP MISSES THE LIPS. POLICE CASES IN NEW PLYMOUTH. A jar of beer destined for the celebration of a tug-of-war victory at Okato on June 7 was the cause of two convictions in the Police Court at New Plymouth yesterday. “I think it was bought for the same purpose as it is procured for dances, to be consumed at a public gathering, and this practice is the origin of all the trouble,” said the magistrate when fining Arthur Lorking £5 and 12s costs for aiding and abetting Edward John Bullock, ' licensee, in keeping his bar open after hours. “Lorking was the chief offender and the publican was weak to allow him to take the liquor away,” continued Mr. Tate. He fined Bullock 40s with 12s costs for keeping his premises open. Both men having pleaded guilty to these offences, Sergeant McCrorie agreed io withdraw the charges of exposing liquor for sale against Bullock, and being unlawfully on the premises against Lorking. The Senior-Sergeant said that at about 11.15 p.m. Constable Brcnchley saw a car standing outside the hotel with a drunk man in it. He asked the man if. he were the owner and received the reply that it belonged to Lorking who was in the bar with Bullock. Bullock admitted he was going to give Lorking the jar to take to the dance hall.

“The liquor was to be tlie aftereffects of a win in the tug-of-war tournament,” said Constable Brcnchley. Mr. A. A. Bennett explained that Lorking had ordered and paid for the beer the day before and Bullock was to have delivered it to the hall. This Bullock forgot to do, and while he was away from the hotel on the Friday night Lorking sent for the jar, but was refused by Bullock’s son. Bullock, sen., returned iatcr and was actually undi easing when Lorking came again. As he had made a mistake in not sending the jar he handed it over.

FREE BOARD AND LODGING.

THE MAN WHO DID NOT PAY.

Passing as a representative of Archibald Clark and Son, Frank Edward Yates obtained’ credit for three weeks’ board from Mrs. Catherine Wolfe and then left without paying anything. The result was his appearance before the magistrate yesterday on a charge of fraud. Besides pleading guilty to this, he admittel the theft of a wallet north ISs Gd from Charles Kidson and a bundle of newspapers belonging to William Pago. He was convicted and sentence was deferred till next Wednesday, pending a report from the probation officer. Detective Meiklejohn said Yates took the papers from the., Hawera railway ■station. He had also stayed at Cambridge house without paying board for four" weeks. He had been in trouble at Dunedin for theft and a breach ot his probation order. Mr. L. M. Moss said that Yates denied any knowledge of the theft of the wallet until it was unrolled from his effects by the police at Mrs. Wolfe s house. He did not know how he obtained it.

MISCELLANEOUS CHARGES. COW BREAKS ROAD REGULATION>. Having allowed a cow to wander on the Main South Road with the;result that a motor-cyclist named I'itzpatricK was knocked unconscious foi> a tune when he collided with it, Emanuel Dix was fined 20s with 30s costs. Dix pleaded not guilty through Mr. A. A. Bennett. Constable Brenchley said he■ found the cow minus both horns. It hiid escaped through a breach in the fence and he..later saw Dix mending the break. The magistrate dismissed charges ot the attempted theft of fruit from Frank King preferred against four youths. Mr. L. M. Moss said the cases were before the court on June 10, when the decisions were adjourned for three months. The defendants fully realised the seuousness. of what they were doing, so he asked for the extension of leniency. Senior-Sergeant McCrorie said they were .respectable fellows and had benaved themselves since appearing previously.