WARNED BY MAGISTRATE
A NIGHT CLUB QUEEN
FINED FOR SELLING LIQOUR
London’s night club queen, Mrs Kate Meyrick, must abdicate or face a severe sentence of imprisonment. A friend declares that London’s night life will sec her no more.
“I do not want to send an old woman to prison if I can help it,” said Mr Dummett, S.M., in convicting Mrs Meyrick of selling liquor without a license at the “ Bunch of Keys” Club. Mrs Meyrick, at the magistrate’s suggestion, pledged herself never to conduct another night club. She was fined £5O and 60 guineas costs, , and bound over for three years on a second charge. Mr Dummett warned defendant that a breach of the undertaking would be most severely punished.
Miss Kathleen Meyrick, daughter of the night club queen, visited Sydney by tho Strathaird in March. There arc two brothers and five sisters in the family. Two of the latter are married, one to a Scottish peer, Lord Kinnoul, and the other to Lord de Clifford, an Englishman with lands in Ireland.
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Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 125, 21 May 1932, Page 2
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