BEER FOUND IN CAR
DANCE HALL VISITORS THREE MEN FINED (Per Press Association.) HAMILTON, this day. Brought under the recently enacted amendment to the Police Offences Act 1927, which makes it’ an offence for a person to have liquor in his possession in the vicinity of a dance hall while a dance is in progress, three charges were heard before Mr. S. L. Paterson. S.M., in tne Magistrate’s Court at Hamilton to-day, when Coiin Thomas Bell, Rototuna. George Frederick William Fiscther, barman, Te Awamut.u and Leslie Vincent Mathers, Te Awamutu. were charged under the act. A car stopped in an empty section near the Frankton Town Hall on the night of a dance and people were seen walking to and fro n ire car to the hall. The police investigated and found 1.7 bottles of beer and five empties.
“These cases are of a serious raturc,” said tire .Magistrate. “The consequences of taking and consuming liquor in the vicinity of dance halls and particular drinking liquor in cars, have been very serious and have led to the Legis'ature to make such action an offence
“These offences will be treated as of a serious nature and the fines will not be light.” Each defendant was fined £5 and costs.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20120, 14 December 1939, Page 6
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