LATE LOCALS.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 October 1920, Page 3

LATE LOCALS.

Members of AH Saints Tennis Club are reminded of the annual meeting on Friday at 7 p.m. sharp. The opening day of the Club will take place on Saturday next, when all friends of the Club are invited to be present. The Magistrate’s Court this morning dealt with the outcome of a recent police raid, with the result that some ten young men were charged with being on licensed premises after hours (in addition to the licensee). A number pleaded guilty and were find a pound s,nd costs each, two second offenders being mulcted with 40/-, while two who elected to defend the charge told such a. story that the Bench had no difficulty in deciding against them, and the Magistrate marked his disapprobation of their defence by doubling the fin*. There is an old saying that “the pitcher goes once too often to the w ell etc. This was exemplified at the Magistrate’s Court this morning when an offender who was charged with being on licensed premises, pleaded a pitifn’ tale of how, with the good .Mentions of keeping his word, at whatever cost, he had gone at one o’clock in the moniiui.r recently’ to the hack door of an hotef, and after knocking there without receiving attention had gone up the fire escape upstairs, and so found his way on to the premises, in company with a friend. His reason of this early j morning visit, lie told the Magistrate I was for the purpose of telling one of ' the household that he had been unable to carryout a'promise, made about six o’clock in the evening before, to bring the Football Cup for her to see, after it bad been presented.. In reply to a. query by the Magistrate as to bis reason for bringing a companion with him for that purpose, the defendant stated that he was a married man and had considered it advisable to have a chaperone when visiting a lady at that time of the night (laughter in the Court). The hard-hearted Magistrate showed by the tenor of further questions and his later decision that the evidence was not sufficiently gullable for him to swallow.