PUBLICAN FINED
LIQUOR SOLD AFTER HOURS. As a result of a visit paid to the S ation Hotel at 9.30 p.m. on April 18 by Sergeant W. Tumulty and Constable H. A. Fraser, the licensee, Edgar Henry Card was fined £lO for selling liquor alter hours. He appeared before Mr J. H. Salmon, S.M., in the Wanganui Magistrate...’s Court yesterday. A barman, Lionel Joseph Voyce, wnu had served unauthorised visitors with drink, was fined a similar sum. Mr. B. C. Haggitt entered pleas of guilty on behalf of both defendants. Sergeant Tumulty said he found six men in the private bar, and they had been served with drinks. None of the men were boarders, or the guests of boarders. The licensee returned to the hotel shortly afterwards, and said he had been away about 20 minutes. When be ieft the premises, he told the police, only two lodgers were in the bar, but he accepted responsibility for the barman’s act. Mr. Haggitt said the offence took place on the night before Good Friday, when the hotel was full of gue:ts, anu the barman had not noticed that the six men he had served were not lodgers. The men found on the premises were each fined £2, with 10s costs.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 90, Issue 116, 21 May 1946, Page 7
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209PUBLICAN FINED Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 90, Issue 116, 21 May 1946, Page 7
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