LIQUOR TAKEN TO A DANCE

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVII, Issue 21528, 15 December 1939, Page 5

LIQUOR TAKEN TO A DANCE

FINES OF £5 IMPOSED HAMILTON. December \4. Brought under the recently enacted amendment to the Police Offences Act. 1927, which makes it an offence for a person to have liquor in his possession in the vicinity of a dance hall while a dance is in progress, three charges were heard before Mr S. L. Patterson, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court today. when Colin Thomas Bell, of Re iotuna, George Frederick William Fiscther. a barman of Te Awamutu, and Leslie Vincent Mathers, of Te Awamutu. were charged under the Act. A car was stopped in an empty section near the Frankton Town Hall on the night of a dance and persons were seen walking to and from th? car to the hall. The police invest!g.. ?d and found 17 bottles of beer and five empties. “These cases are of a serious nature,” said the Magistrate. "The consequences of taking and consuming liquor in the vicinity of dance halls and particularly drinking liquor in cars have been very serious and have led the Legislature ixmake such action an offence. These offenders will be treated as of a serious nature and the fines will not be light ” Each defendant was fined £5 and costs.