HOTEL LICENSEE FINED ON TWO CHARGES OF SELLING LIQUOR AFTER HOURS

Wanganui Chronicle, 21 June 1949, Page 6

HOTEL LICENSEE FINED ON TWO CHARGES OF SELLING LIQUOR AFTER HOURS

"Defendant was convicted last October and will have to be careful in future,” commented Mr S. S. Preston, S.M.- in the Magistrate’s Court, Wanganui, yesterday after imposing a fine of £5 on one charge of selling liquorafter hours preferred against John Joseph Shivnan, licensee of the Bridge Hotel, Whangaehu. On a furthercharge of a similar nature defendant was lined £lO, costs 10s in each case. Referring to the first charge. Senior Sergeant F. Culloty said that at 9.45 on the night of Friday, May 6, Sergeant L. E. Nicol and Constables R. F. Burgess and P. Baker visited the Bridge Hotel and found that the door leading into the public bar was wide open. In the bar were two men who had no right to be there. Dealing with the second charge, Senior-Sergeant Culloty said that on the night of May 12 some men went from Wanganui to Whangaehu by car and remained in the Bridge Hotel for two hours, consuming 10 or 11 drinks each. On their way back to Wanganui the car had an accident, and the driver was subsequently charged with intoxication. When interviewed by the police next day the licensee admitted that the men were at his hotel the previous night. Defendant had one previous conviction in October. Mr R. E. Jack said that only one of the two charges of selling after hours related to the police visit to the hotel. Defendant had been in the hotel for two and a-half years, but he had only one previous conviction.