NIGHT CLUB RAID

Hokitika Guardian, 29 April 1933, Page 6

NIGHT CLUB RAID

CONFLICT IN THE EVIDENCE.AWhile one section of police conducted a. prosecution arising out of a raid on Sydney night club, in the Licensing Court the other day, detectives called for the defence, paid tributes to the conduct of the club. Inspector Collins described the evidence given by the detectives as “amazing,” and intimated his intention of taking “certain action.”

Harold Walter Billington was fined £3O for being the manager of the King’s Bridge Clubj also known a» the “Fifty-fifty Club” unlicensed premises, where liquor had been sold and persons found drinking, and where he had sold liquor. Two other men were also fined £3O for having sold liquor without a- licence. Called by the defence five detectives said that, in the years they had been visiting the club in the course of their duties, they had never seen liquor sold or consumed on the premises. One detective admitted that a man, whom he had known to be a gunman, was employed at the club. Another detective said he knew the club had been raided on many occa- j sions, but he would have no objection j in taking his wife there, and would be | pleased to associate with any'person lie had seen at the club. A third detective said lie had found a respectable class of people frequented the club. He had not seen anything to prevent him from taking his wife there. He added ,however, that he would not take his wife to any night club.