ENDORSEMENT NEXT TIME.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XV, Issue 883, 7 February 1907, Page 20

ENDORSEMENT NEXT TIME.

At the Thames Magistrate’s Court last Friday, W. H. Laycock, licensee of the Tairua Hotel, was charged with selling liquor to Michael Tobin on a Sunday. Mr Fallon, on behalf of the Crown, stated that whilst an endorsement was not asked for, he would submit that a heavy penalty should be inflicted , seeing as the hotel was in an isolated district, and, therefore, not under such close police supervision as hotels in towns. It was the duty of the licensee to exercise stricter supervision in the conduct of his business. Mr Clendon, for the defence, stated that the man to whom the liquor had been supplied had obtained it on a misrepresentation, he having told the girl, who was at the time supplying liquor to boarders, that Mr Laycock said he was to have a drink, whereas he had not done so. His Worship fined the defendant £3 and costs, and notified him that on the next offence he would , endorse the license. Charges were brought against Thomas Dufty, Hugh Mulgrew, and M. Tobin, for being on the licensed premises of the Tairua Hotel during the hours such premises should be closed, and they were each fined 5s and costs.