TAITA HOTEL CASE.

Hutt News, Volume 2, Issue 10, 1 August 1929, Page 6

TAITA HOTEL CASE.

(X>NVICTIONS, ENTERED

On EastteT Sunday last Sergeant

Paine, of Wellington, and' Constable - Anson, of Lower Huitt, - visited the Taifca Hotel and found several men there. Having taken tibeir names the police departed but they paid a surprise return visit later. '.As a result

of these two raids, the licensee of the

hiabel, Ghaides Victor Leeming was was charged with unlawfully opening

licensed .premises for the sale of liquOT, unlawfully selling, and unlawfully exr posing liquor for sale. Walter Cotton was charged with o'bsftruetanig the ser-

geantt while in the execution of "his duty and Vernon Langridge and' Walter William Kenneth Futter wero -*ach charged with being found on licensed premises after hours c, one at 3.30 p.m., and again at 5.3.5 p.m,

Fox various reasons the ease, -viiich was originally heard a/t Lower JJutft, h«as been adjourned several times, but it reached final stages in' the Wellington Magistrate's CouTt on Friday last.

After hearing one more witness for the. defence, Mr. T. B. McNeil, S,M,, convicted Leeming for exposing liquor for sale, but dismissed the eliatrge •of 1 selling, while the charge of unlawfully opening the premises was withdrawn. Leeming was fined £5/1/-, security for appeal being fixed at £10/10/-, plus tlie amount of t!he fine and costs.

Langridge and Flitter w-ere each- fined £2. on the first charge against them, the second charge being dismissed, while Cotton who, in an effort t<x warn a man had called ouit: "Clear out; the 'Johns' are here," was also fin«d £2 for obs«truc,ting the police. Mr. W. Perry appeared for all the defendants. . "