ALCOHOLIC BILLIARDS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 628, 3 April 1929, Page 1

ALCOHOLIC BILLIARDS

CANNONS OFF THE WALL ROW COSTS 10/- A MINUTE Ten minutes’ diversion in an Onehunga billiard saloon on Saturday evening cost John Forsyth just under 10s a minute, at the Onehunga Police Court this morning. r T WO Patrons playing “pyramids” were arguing the point about the rules of the game when Forsyth, who was drunk, attempted to settle the dispute by knocking dents in the walls of the saloon with the billiard balls. The ammunition running short, he picked up a cue and smashed it to splinters over the corner of the billiard table, and then ran outside into the arms of Constable Wilks, whom he advised to “come inside and settle a row.” The constable, however, turned the tables on him, and told the bench this morning that accused was mad drunk and had acted most violently under arrest. J. Wynn, proprietor of the saloon, said he was away having his tea at the time, but William Bawery said he saw the balls thrown about and the smashing of the cue. The justices, Messrs. W. N. Mclntosh and J. E. Green, fined Forsyth £1 for drunkenness, £2 for disorderly conduct, ordered him to pay £1 ss, the value of the cue, and 11s witnesses’ expenses.