SLY-GROG SELLING
SEQUEL TO POLICE RAID. CLUB PROPRIETOR FINED. • WELLINGTON, Friday. A sequel to the police raid on Rodney’s Club at Seatoun early on the morning of Sunday, , 30th July, was heard at the Magistrate’s Court to-day, when Rodney Pankhurst was charged before Mr E. Page, S.M., with two offences of selling liquor in a no-lieense area; keeping liquor for sale in a noliccnse area; ordering liquor, which was to be taken into a no-license aiea, without notifying the person to whom the order was given where the liquor was to be taken; and keeping open a cabaret on a Sunday. Three waiters employed at the club, Charles William Sheridan, Benjamin Bailey and Hugh Grainger, wore charged with aiding and.abetting Pankhurst to sell liquor in a no-license area. The Magistrate fined Pankhurst £3O and costs on the first charge of selling liquor in a no-license area, and on the second he convicted defendant and ordered him to pay costs. Pankhurst was fined a further £4 on the charge relating to the ordering of the liquor. The Magistrate ordered the confiscation of the liquor seized. Pankhurst was given one month in which to find the money. The three waiters, who were stated to be acting under the direction of their employer, Pankhurst, were each fined £2.—(P.A.)
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 19 August 1933, Page 5
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