DRINKING IN HOUSE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 209, 20 September 1937, Page 6

DRINKING IN HOUSE

Two Prohibited Persons Before Court NEIGHBOURS' COMPLAINT Robert Spiers, of Napier, iabourer, was fined £5, in default one inonthi's r imprisonment, when he was convicted in the Napier Magistrate's Court tliis morning on a charge of assisting two prohibited persons to drink liboqr, He was allowed a month to pay the fine. On charges of a breach of a prohibition order in connection with the case, Alfred Cording was fined £1' vvith 10/costs, and Isabella- Cording was convicted and ordered to conie up for sentenoe if called upon witliin tliree montlis. Senior-Sergeant W. Pender prosecuted and Mr A. H. D. Mayne appeared for tlie Cordings. The Senior-Sergeant stated that the orders had been taken out voluntarily after a recent Supreme Court case. The police had been irequently called to the house on complaints from the neighbours in regard to drunken quarrels there. Constable J. Kenny gave evidence that he had called at the bouse in regard to a quarrel.. The Cordings were, in the front room and Spiers, at the table, was pouriiig beer into three cups. He handed oue to Cording and one to Mrs Cording, who was lying on a bed. Ho had previously been inlormed that tlie Cordings had been prohibited. Spiers, however, denied that there had been any boer in the house. In evidence he stated that althougb there had been a jar in the room, it coiitained 110 beer, and it liad been in the room for a long time. The Mugistrate fined Cording £1, in default three days' imprisonment, and ordered Mrs Cording to come up for sentence if called upon within three months. A warning was issued, in view of the remarks of the Senior-Sergeant, that if she came up again on the same matter, there would be a question of coiuniitting her to Pakatoa. * "I am satisfied that you are guilty," said the Magistrate to Spiers. "People of your standard who carry on like this are a menace to the community." Spiers was fined £5, in del'ault one mouth's imprisonment on one charge, and 011 the second was ordered to conie up for seutence if called upon vitliin six montlis."