LICENSING BREACHES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2496, 21 October 1922, Page 2

LICENSING BREACHES.

BREACH OF PROHIBITION ORDER. At the loeal S.M. Court yesterday, before Mr J. L. Stout, S.M., Hans Peter Jacobsen was charged with a breach of a prohibition order. Mr Bergin appeared for accused who pleaded not guilty. Constables O'Donoghue and Owen gave evidence to seeing the accused ride his bicycyle up to the Maltawatu Hotel and enter the premises on August 26th. They waited for about half-an-hour but did not see him eonte out and went through the- hotel but did not see him. The accused worked at the mill at the rear of the hotel. Hails Peter Jacobsen said he left his bicycle near the hotel on the Saturday afternoon in question and saw Liiadqitist and told him In look .liter it. He then proceeded to the mill. Carl Lundqiii.-t said he -poke to .Jacobsen who was in a right-of-way near the hotel. Denied that lie spoke to Constable Owen on the afternoon in question. R. X. Speirs, timber merchant, denied the accused’s assertion that lie spoke to him on the afternoon in question at the mill. Accused was lined £2 and costs ILLEGALLY OX’ LICENSED PREMISES. A. Dunn, for being illegally on licensed premises after being ejected by the landlord ot' the Manawatu Hotel was lined £2 and costs £1 Us. Evidence was given by the licensee and his son a> to the accused’s abusive language on being ordered oft’ t lie premises. J. Hines was charged with being illegally oil Die premises of Whyte's iloiel on the night of the 19th September. The licensee said he heard a noise in the corridor at about 2 or 2.30 a.m. Several men rushed out by the back exit, but the accused remained and never gave any explanation for his being there. Convicted and lined £2 and costs 9s.