LOWER HUTT COURT

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 162, 3 April 1919, Page 8

LOWER HUTT COURT

UK EACH OF THIS LICENSING'LAW

At tho monthly sitting of the Lower Hutt Magistrate's Court hold yesterday, before Air. I'. V, Fraser, S.H.. Helena B Perkins was charged with permitting an unregistered barmaid to serve liquor at the ifailway Hotol on l'ebrimry 9. Sergeant Bird prosecuted and Mr. H. J.'. O'Leary appeared for accused. ■ Constable Holmes stated that on tho date in'(iuestion--a Sunday-he entered the hotel. Ho found the bar door open, mid a man named Corliss was there with ii "lassfitl of beer, which looked as if >t had been freshly'drawn. Mrs. Oreen, who was not a registered barmaid, was behind tho bar. Questioned ns to what he was doing there, Corliss, instead of replying, swallowed the beer. He alterwards denied that Mrs. Green supplied him, stating that Mrs. Perkins had done 60 Mrs. Green also made a similar assertion. Witness bad ascertained later Mint Mrs. Perkins had gone to Wolling(ton two hours previously. Constable Frost corroborated tbo evi. dence of Constablo Holmes. . Mr. O'Leary, for the defence, staled the liquor must have been obtained by Corliss from the dining-room, where a jug , of beer had been placed on the table for dinner. ' Elizabeth Green said she was the owner but not the licensee of tho hotel: She had not served any Honor,-and aerer served in tho bnr or worked there when the tar was open. On the Sunday m question she was pninting the shelves of the bar, when Corliss walked in with a glass of <beer, which he drank when tho police entered. , Tho Magistrate said 'he was asked to believe some strange things. Beer haoi been supplied to Corliss with his dinner. Hβ had* then one to sleep, and on wakiii" up had taken tho. glass of beer, which he had poured out at dinner, and which must have been very flat, or else poured another from a jug which held a little moro than a quart, for five persons. It 'was a wonder there was any left. It was qtnte clear that the place was run by Mrs. Green, and/ that Mrs. Perkins was only a. dummy licensee. He hoped the Licensing Committee wonltf not allow euch a etnto of,things in the future. As, however, the: real guity party was Mrs. 'Green and as -Mrs. Perkins was now out of the hotel, tho fhiD would be the minimum one. Accused would bo fined .£1 and costs.

OBSCENE LANGUAGE. I'or using--.obscene language in Rata Bond, Jameeg Own Bradley, for whom Mr E. P. Bunny, appeared, was fined Ao and 30s. costs. AN UNLIMITED VEHICLE. ■For failing to have n. light on "a top •which he was driving at night, E. Caley was fined 17e. nnd costs.