TO KEEP OUT THE COLD

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1008, 26 June 1930, Page 20

TO KEEP OUT THE COLD

LIQUOR AFTER HOURS PUBLICAN TO PAY £5 For selling liquor after hours to two men from Auckland, the licencee of the Globe Hotel, Papakura, Ern.est Christian Foote, was lined £5 and costs 10s in the Papakura Police Court yesterday. The magistrate was Mr. F. H. Levien. Sergeant Cowan said that on May 13 a party of two men and three girls left Auckland at 7 p.m. in a car. They obtained liquor in Auckland and after midnight arrived at Papakura. The j two men went to the rear of the hotel, j After they had been away about 20 ] minutes one of the girls became anxious and went after them. She 1 found them in a bar in the hotel, j Foote was there and there were three men in the bar. They had liquor. The car party continued to Te Rapa, and coming back smashed into a bridge at Mercer. For defendant, Mr. S. D. Rice said the defendant heard the two men walking about at the back of the hotel about 1 a.m. They knocked several times at the back door, but he ignored the knocking. However, so persistent was it that he at last opened the door. They asked if they could get a drink. He refused, and they then said they were travelling through to Hamilton, and as it was a bitterly cold night would he give them a flask of whisky. Defendant agreed, and they had only been in the bar two or three minutes when the girl came round. Defendant had accepted them as bona fide travellers and this had led him to supply the flash. Mr. Rice said that "the police re-

ports to the licensing committee were to the effect that the hotel was particularly well conducted. Tie asked the magistrate to take this into consideration in fixing a penalty.