TWO MEN FINED
DRINKS ON CHRISTMAS DAY
A visit paid; by the polica to the Caledonian Hotel on the afternoon of Christmas Day during the tea adjournment at the cricket: match on the Basin Reserve, resulted in Arthur/ Lawrence Darragh being charged in the Magistrate's Court today' with, unlawfully supplying liquor,1 and John Joseph Darragh with selling liquor after hours.
Senior-Sergeant J. Deinpsey said that when the police entered "the hotel they found in the private bar a number of men, some of whom had already been dealt with'by the Court. .'. Arthur Lawrence Darragh, the barman, was behind the bar counter. The licensee, John Joseph Darragh, who was not on the premises at the time of the visit, had since transferred the licence to another man.
Pleading guilty on behalf of both defendants, Mr. W. Perry explained that Arthur Lawrence Darragh was a brother of the licensee. He was not employed as a regular barman but as a porter. The men had importuned him for liquor and he had.supplied four or five of them.
Mr. E. Page, S.M., fined Arthur Lawrence Davragh £5 and John Joseph Darragh £2.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 22, 26 January 1934, Page 8
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188TWO MEN FINED Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 22, 26 January 1934, Page 8
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