SALE OF LIQUOR

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 6, 22 January 1937, Page 3

SALE OF LIQUOR

Our Own Correspondent.;

Number of Cases at Wairoa

LICENSEE FINED

CFiom

WAIROA, Jan. 23. A number of charges concerning tho sale of liquor on New Year's Eve were heard at the Magistrate's Court before Mr E, L. Walton, S.M. The police proceeded against John R. Williamson, licensee of the New Wairoa Hotel, for (1) exposing liquor for eaie, (2) selling liquor, and (3) opening the premises for the sale of liquor on New A'ear's Eve, all during prohibited houra. Jane Williamson, wife of the licensee^ was also proceeded against on a chargo that, being a person other than the licensee, she supplied liquor on the same occasion during prohibited houra. The following were charged with having been found on licensed prernises, the New Wairoa Hotel, on the date in question: Patrick Dilion Malcolm McHinnon, Archibald McKinnon, James Osler, jun., Frederick Carroli and Mundy Rika. Billon did not appear. Mr Chamberlain appeared for the. MclSinnons and Osler, who plcaded not guilty. Carroli pleaded guilty. Mr O 'Malley appeared ior the defendants . Williamson, and agreed , that' all the cases be taken to- , gether. Tho licensee, J. R. Williamson, • was hned £5 and costs, and Mrs Williaiuson £1 and costs, The cases against Osier and the McHinnon brothers were dismissed as being of a., trivial nature. F. Carroli was lined '£1 and costs., 15/-, and a similar penalty- was Imposed on, Billon and, Rika. fiorgeant D. Olark conducted thq prosecutions, the first case taken being that of F. Carroli. The cases- against the licensee and his ' wife were then taken.- Sergeant Clark, outlining the charges, stated that a travelle'r named Eeslie Brousch arrived at Wairoa from Napier with a friend about midnight on New Year's Eve. He went i to ' Stc.wart and- Taylor's garage, visited their agOnts, including Malcolin McKinnon,' and then went to Stewart 's house and later to a dance, where he met Mr Frances about the car deal. Then.the six men' interested 'in a trade-in, inc,liiding Osler, went to the Wairoa Hotel. Brousch sq,id he , intended staying there and saw Mrs Williamson, one of the defendants, in the lounge. Malcolm* McKinnon and Osler were talking businees. He asked for two rooms tor the night and also for a private place to talk over some business. He got drinks for himself and his friends. Mrs Williamson .served and he paid her. Evidence was givon by George Oakes, Fred Carroli, Constable Matches, Sergeant Clark and Constable McAIpine. For the defence evidence waa given hy Malcolm McKinnon on the lines of the sergeant 's, but maintaining that the business that brought them to the hotel was the car deal, and that his brother merely kept with him to got home in the same car, Sergeant Clark walked in and ordered them back to the bar as they had ju-st lef t the private room. W. Osler, / jun., also gave evidence that he did not go to the hotel for a drink. His Worship said it was clear that Brousch was a boardor, and had somo rights, but the supplieT of the liquor had none. Mr 0 'Malley submitted that the licensee was authorised to supply boarders and their friends, and Mr Chamberlain pleaded on bebalf of his clients.