LIQUOR NEAR DANCE HALL
SIX LOCAL PROSECUTIONS
WOMAN DEFENDANT INVOLVED
The story of how the local.police interrupted a drinking party outside the Caledonian Hall on the evening of the !)th of November last was .3 told in the Whakatane Magistrate’s Court last Tuesday Avhen six persons including one woman were charged with having liquor in their possession in tile vicinity of a dance hall. Mr E. L. Walton was on the bench.
The defendants Cody Tangitu Arthur ltufus David Frank William Geo. Hutchins, Leonard Field and Tess Loveridge, were defended by Mr Barry with the exception of Fiel,d. Sergeant Farrell said that the party had been accosted drinking in a ear which was parked outside, the hall.
Mr Barry said that three of the defendants were returned men who at that time had recently been rcr patriated. They had agreed to make up a party and go to the dance which was to be in tile nature of a celebration. A few bottles of. liquor had been purchased and the group was engaged in toasting the mens safe, return when the police intervened. There was no possible harm intended and no outsiders were involved.
All six defendants w r ere lined £3 and costs A
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 38, 25 January 1946, Page 5
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205LIQUOR NEAR DANCE HALL Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 38, 25 January 1946, Page 5
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