POLICE RAID FASHIONABLE DANCE
CANIiKIiKA, Jmin 11. A Vb-torv nighl dance attended hugelv l>y li'galimi chiefs and 1 lioir staffa, Avas raidcd Iast night bv the police. and large quantities of liquor, some belonging to lcgation ollicials, wero confiscated. The police entered the preniises with a .-earch warrant. The fash iona hle croud was unaware fliat a raid was in jirogrcss until the darn-ers moved in from tii" liallroom to discover tiuit ali Ihe liquor had been removed from the room in which it had heen plaoed. The jiolice ignorcd complaints that some of -Ihe Iiquor was privaft: property and n'liioved a qnantity of Bourbon whisky de.spile being tohi that it was the property oi' Ihe (.'hilea» Minister, Senor Palmer. The function was lield at Barton Ilouse which caters largelv for diplo'matic and semi-oflicial functions. Ad mission was by invitation only at half! a guinea per head hnt it is claimed that a voung man who later proved to be a policeman, was permitted .to atteiid and later received a hoftle of wine,. No action against any of the guests is cunt emplaf ed. Bv a wartime regulation it is technically an oil'enee for any person to take liquor to a Canberra dance hut this regulation was nnderstood to liave heen wai ved sinee VP Day.
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Chronicle (Levin), 12 June 1946, Page 5
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