LIQUOR AT A DANCE
TWO MEN CHARGED EACH FINED £3 Constable F. M. Fuller prosecuted when Henry Dawson Tocker was charged in the Magistrate's Court on Wednesday with being in control of one quart bottle of liquor near a hall while a dance was in progress at Edgecumbe on March 9. Constable Fuller said that in consequence of complaints received, he and Constable Prater went to Edgecumbe and found defendant in a taxi which was within thirty yards off, and in front of, a hall in which dancing was taking place. He found one bottle of beer on the floor of the taxi and two bottles in a nearby drain. Tocker admitted owning one bottle. Defendant was fined £3 and costs, 16s, and a similar fine, with costs, was imposed on Ivan Henry Quedley lon an identical charge.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Issue 2, 12 April 1940, Page 5
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138LIQUOR AT A DANCE Bay of Plenty Beacon, Issue 2, 12 April 1940, Page 5
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