LICENSEE’S RECORD

Taranaki Daily News, 23 February 1935, Page 10

LICENSEE’S RECORD

NO PENALTY FOR OFFENCE. AFTER-HOUR SALE AT MANAIA. The exemplary conduct of the Waimate Hotel, Manaia, by the licensee, Percy William Barnes, caused Mr. W. H. Woodward, S.M., to convict and discharge him on a charge of selling liquor after hours in the Hawera Magistrate’s Court yesterday. Carrol Arthur Barnes, defendant’s son, on a charge of being a person other than the licensee in selling liquor after hours, was fined £4, costs 10s. Sergeant J. Henry prosecuted, and Mr. J. Houston represented Barnes, who pleaded guilty. Five men were subsequently fined for being found on licensed premises after hours. A charge against Barnes of keeping open premises after hours for the sale of liquor was withdrawn. On January 30, at 9.30 p.m. said the sergeant, Constable Scannell found five men in a side room of the hotel. The son of the licensee, who was not on the premises, admitted the sale. The son was allowed to supply boarders. The licensee had conducted the hotel in a satisfactory manner, continued the sergeant “Barnes has been a licensee for 30 years and this is the first time a conviction has been recorded against him,” said Mr. Houston, who paid a tribute to the sergeants’ fair handling of the case The case was purely one of vicarious responsibility, for had Barnes been on the premises he would not have served the men. Both parties had been perfectly flank, and the son had no convictions of any kind. “I hesitate to put a black mark against this man,” said Mr. Woodward in giving judgment. Subsequently, Reginald Guy Hooper, Patrick Steffert, Harvey Thompson/ Frank Reginald Simpson, and Mervyn Birkett were each • fined £2, costs 10s, for being found on licensed premises after hours, and Birkett was fined an additional £l, costs 10s, for giving a false address.

CASES AT HAWERA COURT. MOTORING OFFENCES. An accident on the Tokaora hill on Main South Road on December 8 had an echo in the Hawera Magistrate’s Court yesterday when P. W. Patterson, who pleaded guilty to driving a motor cycle in a negligent manner, was fined 20s, costs 10s, by Mr. W. H. Woodward, S.M. Sergeant J. Henry, who prosecuted, said that on the night in question, Patterson had 4 been passed on his incorrect side by ariother cyclist and had gone over to the wrong side, striking the left hand side of a car coming down the hill. He was within six feet of the tarsealed portion on his incorrect side of the road. Patterson said that the motor car driven was in no way to blame. Patterson had been in hospital with a broken leg since and had suffered a good deal for his misdeed. Patterson, using crutches, was given leave to explain, and said the other cycle had passed him on the left-hand side. The cycle had swerved more than expected, taking him across the road. “As you have suffered a good deal, you will be fined only 20s, costs 10s,” said Mr. Woodward, who gave Patterson two months to pay. Pleading guilty to two charges, one of failing to have a warning device on his motor cycle and the other of failing to reduce speed to less than 15 m.p.h. when within 100 yards of a railway crossing, G. ,M. Rockell was fined £l, costs 10s, on the second charge and convicted and discharged on the first. The offences occurred at Normanby on November 23, since when Rockell has been an inmate of the Hawera hospital. Sergeant Henry, who prosecuted, said that Rockell had admitted speeding over the crossing, shortly after passing which he had collided with a car. He was given two months to pay. Charged with being found drunk on the Mawhitiwhiti Road, Normanby, A. J. Bryant was fined 10s. For failing to give way to traffic on the right, Ngata was fined £l, costs 15s. OPUNAKE RETAILERS. ANNUAL MEETING DEFERRED. The annual meeting of the retailers’ association was to have been held on Thursday evening. The members present passed a motion that the annual meeting be deferred until November and that a committee consisting of the president, secretary and another member be a committee to deal with business during the interval. It was decided that all retailers be requested to close .shops at 10.30 a.m. on race day. . The president reported that lighting cords were lent out to dancing committees. In future a charge of 10s per night was fixed for hire. . A letter of appreciation is to be forwarded to the Railway Department for providing special excursion trains to Opunake during the surf competitions. A letter of thanks is to be sent to the Town Board for its monetary assistance. Mr. H. J. Mantey (president) presided. The secretary is Mr. R. Hughson, KAPONGA TO-NIGHT. DOUBLE-STAR PROGRAMME. All the action of the motion picture, “The Ninth Guest,” which is now on the bill at the Kaponga Theatre, takes place in a span of less than 24 hours. Most of the drama transpires during the time between nine in the evening and the early hours of the following morning. In the play, eight guests are invited to a mysterious penthouse party where they are told by a voice from the radio that they are all to die unless they can outwit the speaker. The fiend’s plans evolve successfully, until he interferes in the romance of two young people and encounters his match. On the same bill is the official film of the late Archbishop Redwood’s jubilee celebration, showing the most spectacular procession ever witnessed at Wellington, and also a Maori welcome at Otaki. THE LIFE OF SCHUBERT. TAUBER IN “BLOSSOM TIME.” Schubert, one of the greatest composers of all time, specialised in the writing of songs, a big percentage of them songs of love. Now this gentle, big-hearted Franz Schubert, this lovable composer of some of the most beautiful music the world will ever know, lives again in the person of Richard Tauber—for “Blossom Time” is the story of his life —the tenderness of his love, the bitterness of losing the one girl for whom he longed, the girl who inspired his delightful music, music that reaches its greatest beauty in .the glorious voice of Tauber—the golden voice of the world’s foremost tenor— flawlessly recorded and brought to you by the magic of the audible screen. And who better than this monarch of music to-day, to recreate the fragrant romance—to magnificefitly sing the songs of this musical genius of yesteryear? The picture starts a season of four nights and three matinees at the Hawera Opera House to-