LIQUOR AFTER HOURS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 31, 30 October 1937, Page 13

LIQUOR AFTER HOURS

Drink Ordered in Afternoon Collected at Night PORANGAHAU CASE

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

WAIPUKURAU, Last Night. "This is not the usual case of the bar having been opened for drinking after hours, but simply a matter of the handing over of a parcel which had been ordered before 6 p.m., and I am going to view it that way," said Mr J. Miller, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court at Waipukurau when Gavin Black, licensee of the Duke of Edinburgh Hotel, Porangahau, pleaded guilty to a charge of opening his hotel for the sale of liquor after hours on September 17, and was fined £2. with costs 15/-. Constable D. H. Sutton said that Black had received a telephone message in the afternoon ordering four bottles of beer for some men in a contractor's camp nearby. It was the last day of their contract and they worked late to finish, one man finally coming to the hotel for the beer in a truck at 8.30

p.m. Constable Ryan, of Porangahau, happened to be in the vicinity and saw the parcel handed over. George Hugh Thompson, the truckdriver, charged with aiding Black in the commission of an offence, pleaded guilty by letter and was fined £1 with costs 15/-. He stated that at the time he had not realised he was doing any wrong in collecting a parcel that had been ordered during legal hours. Black's explanation was the same, and he added that he had been unable to find a way to send the parcel out during the afternoon.