LICENSEE CHARGED. LIQUOR AFTER HOURS.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20091, 21 November 1930, Page 9

LICENSEE CHARGED.

LIQUOR AFTER HOURS.

Four men were drinking in the bar s? the Masonic Hotel in the small ioors of the morning of October 19th, sad as the lights were on and the Misds np they were seen by a police The result was that several twges for breaches of the licensing *ero heard at the Magistrate's Court yesterday. licensee, William Henry Ward, *aa charged with exposing liquor for s «e after hours; the night porter of hotel, David Blair Marsh, was ™*rged with supplying liquor to three after hours; and Frank Leslie Iwim and Leslie Horton were charged *itfc being ou licenced premises after Umri.

.Jfr A. C. Brassington appeared for ii?-i an( * ar3 h> who pleaded guilty, 'aile Dodd and Horton did not upS**r.

Bal>-Ingpector P. J. O'Hara said at 3 a.m. on October 19th the testable ou tbe beat noticed four men 'into the Masonic Hotel. He jj*jj informed the f-ergeant, who had 6®i» along and found the lights on in J*.ffr'y and the blinds up. He had r**®l tn the window and had seen J/j?® s ® at. the bar, one of whom had t .^ m informed the porter. tkUL *he blind down. He had |®®a gone to the door, and there had some delay in letting him' in. a® potter admitted having supplied ,1 ?f n ' two °f whom were still in u • ®^ r i. with liquor. The two men S»T their offence, while the ** awayijr "fassington said that Marsh had ta»n out the bar when the drint « como in and asked for a. hj» fc.4 t a d supplied them, though not to j n * ll ? s^ru eted by the licensee y l °. do so in any such cases. He sine® been dismissed from his (j,j i® as night porter, for which he cud K!®V e teivinK £2 9s per week, t*r teea re-engaged as day porTha i;» a of £2 ts 6d per week, an* „^ e ? sec 8 breach was a technical binoftlt V at * no ' ; served the drink isW, 'i ft J? ad been in bis bed Tfci « V® timeof tha ?; # ® str at9 said that the duty ibt nnrt^ 1563 nofc ellc * » n telling hoqjj pT to sell drinks after Porter dirf „„? d see io it( thafc Wnr.l sell. $8 *®* fined OS and costs; Marsh IQI #b j oa .the first charge, and tad jSJaj s6 * s on each of the others; aa 4 Hortoa 20$ aad costs