WENT FOR DECOYS TO TAI TAPU HOTEL.
DUCK-SHOOTERS FOUND IN BAR ON SUNDAY. That two men had gone to the Tai Tapu Hotel on SundA-, April 29, to collect duck-shooting decoys, was a statement made by Mr Twyneham in the Magistrate's Court to-dav. when Louis Ebert and Herbert Free were charged with being on the premises cf the Tai Tapu Hotel after hours. Both defendants were fined £1 and costs. Mr O. R. Orr-Walker was on the Bench.
Mr Twyneham said that the hotel was one of the best-conducted in New Zealand, and it was a very optimistic person who expected to get a drink there after hours. The jnen were duckshooters, and it had not occurred to them that it would be an infringement of the law to call on a Sunday for the shooting decoys which they had left. The men had told the police that thev were friends of the licensee, and thev did not indulge in any fantastic excuses. The licensee was scrubbing out the bar at the time, and that was how the two defendants came to enter the bar.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18465, 17 May 1928, Page 1
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