RAID UPON NIGHT CLUBS

Taranaki Daily News, 16 January 1934, Page 9

RAID UPON NIGHT CLUBS

WELLINGTON POLICE VISITS QUANTITIES OF LIQUOR SEIZED. APPROPRIATE TUNES BY BANDS. “POLICEMAN’S HOLIDAY” PLAYED. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, Jan. 15. Two well-known Wellington nightclubs were raided by parties of police officers under Senior-Sergeant Donald •Scott, of the Mount Cook police station, in the early hours of Sunday morning. They were the Pharaoh Club, Onslow Road, Khandallah, and the Crow’s Nest Club, Milne Terrace, Island Bay. A quantity of liquor was seized at both establishments under the terms of a warrant issued under the Licensing Act, Several persons were in attendance at each club when the police, called. The first place to be visited by the police was the Pharaoh Club, where Senior-Sergeant Scott, of the Mount Cook police station, Sergeant Duke, and a number of constables, made their entrance after midnight. At the raid on the Crow’s Nest, which was carried out at 2 a.m., Senior-Ser-geant Scott was accompanied by Sergeant Black and several constables. As soon as the police arrived, the cabaret orchestra struck up the tune “Policeman’s Holiday,” which was followed by “The Prisoner’s Song,” and when they left the guests assembled on the balcony and sang “For They are Jolly Good Fellows.”