Liquor in Vicinity Of Dance Hall: Nine Men Fined

Grey River Argus, 7 October 1948, Page 2

Liquor in Vicinity Of Dance Hall: Nine Men Fined

Three members of an Auckland touring football team, and six "um from the Greymouth district attended a dance at Gladstone on .September 18, but made the mistake or having bottles of beer in their uusses-.ion. The nine men were charged beioie Mr Rex C. Abernethy, >.M., m the. Grevmouth Police Court yesterday; with having liquor in the viciuux of a dance hall. Each man was Until £2 and 10s costs. They were. —Leslie Wells, inaehmist Mt. Wellington highway, Oiahuhu Peter Guv Saunders, carpentei, Otahuhu, John Whelan, titter Otahuhu, Joseph Francis Murphy. Guymouth, George Curtain. Greymouth, James Sontgen, Paroa, Alexandei Bradv, Grevmouth, Patrick Harrington, ‘Greymouth, and William Paine Green, Cobden. Curtain was the only man to appear, and pleaded guilty. Addressing Curtain, the Magistrate said: "I don’t want to read you a lesson. That is for your mother and father. I do not say liquor should not be taken if wanted, so long as it is at a reasonable time. there is a limit.” He added that, it was no good a youth like Curtain being found drinking with others. He did not want to start getting round dance halls drinking like that, concluded Mr Abernethy.