LIQUOR NEAR DANCES

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XXXII, Issue 8872, 15 February 1943, Page 2

LIQUOR NEAR DANCES

YOUNG -MEN'S PLEASURE TRIPS COMMENT BY MAGISTRATE Comment on the fact that young men seemed to experience little difficulty in securing enough benzine Lo go comparatively long distances on pleasure bent, and supplied with liberal quantities of drink, was made by Mr W. H. Freeman, S.M., at the monthly sitting of the Waihi Magistrate's Court, when a number of defendants admitted having had liquor in their possession in the vicinity of a cabaret at Waihi Beach during the holiday season. Five Waihi young men who admitted the offence either by appearing in person or by letter were Roy Walter Hendry, Frank Edwin Eden, Donald C. Farrell, Robert S. Mills and Raymond Keith Johnson. Sergeant A. Bisset said defendants had left for the Beach in two motor-cars, Hendry having first purchased 18 bottles of beer the cost of which was shared by the others. They were all single men. A line of £2 10s and costs was imposed in each case. Similarly charged, Gilbert Taylor, of Paeroa, pleaded guilty by letter, and the sergeant said that defendant, who had been attending a Beach dance, had six full and seven empty bottles in his car. In imposing a fine of t'-l and costs, the magistrate made the comment referred to and said that in Taylor's case the total distance travelled from iPaei'oa to Waihi Beach and hack again would be approximately 40 miles.