SALE OF LIQUOR

Taranaki Daily News, 29 January 1935, Page 5

SALE OF LIQUOR

HOTEL OPEN AFTER HOURS.

RAHOTU LICENSEE FINED. Pleading guilty to a charge of selling liquor from a hotel after hours, Richard Delaney Dunn, licensee of the Rahotu Hotel, was fined £2 (12s costs) by Mr. W. H. Woodward, S.M., at the New Plymouth Magistrate’s Court yesterday. Sergeant S. G. Clist said Constable Ruston visited the Rahotu Hotel at 8.45 p.m. on December 8. On entering the main door he heard a scramble in the sitting room, the alarm apparently having been given. The constable intercepted three men who admitted having consumed liquor. The licensee also admitted the sale. The hotel had previously been conducted satisfactorily. Mr. Woodward: Since when? ' Sergeant Clist: The licensee has not been there very long. Mr. A. A. Bennett: There was a charge against him but this is his first conviction. He has been licensee for 15 years—

Mr. Woodward; Of this hotel?' “No," said Mr. Bennet. This is his first offence and the police had not taken a serious view. Dunn was not given to indiscriminate after-hours trading. The men concerned were decent young residents, it was a hot night and Dunn foolishly served them in an effort to get rid of them as soon as possible. He would make the penalty light, said Mr. Woodward, in view of Dunn’s clean record and particularly his frankness to the police.