£3 Which Otaki Carnival Queen Missed

Chronicle (Levin), 12 February 1949, Page 4

£3 Which Otaki Carnival Queen Missed

"It might have been better if he had given the £3 I am going to fine, him as a contribution to the carnival queen," commented Mr. H. J. Thompson, S.M., in tne Magistrate's Court, Levin, • yesterday when entering a fine and conviction against Leon Gordon Macdonald on a charge of being ifi possession of liquor in the vicinity of the Manakau dance hall on December 11. The magistrate made his observation after reading a letter from defendant's solicitor, which stated that' Macdonald was normally a sober and quiet person who rarely went to functions-at night, but had -attended the dance . at Manakau beca-use it was in aid of a. carnival queen he was- sponsoring. Hiq .was not th.e usual ' case' of , indiscr.eet drinking by young persons a't dan.ce halls, the. letter added. . " . For . the" police, * Sergeaht Wi Grainger ' said tiia't 1 dfef'endant- had come out of the hal'l -and -gdn'e' to a parked car, and h'ad started to consume a bottle of liquor. ' Court -costs were lls; •-"' •" On similar charges in respect of the same dance hall, Athol John Webley, of Otaki, . Allan- Qyrus Hargraves,(. pf Wellington, and Jame^ Murr.a,y ...Hodgetts, of' Of a'ki,... welre each , fined" £3, Sergeant^ Grainger stated' "that the three" ; d'ef end^hts were drinking beer from a bdttle beside a parked car near the'" hall.