ON LICENSED PREMISES ON SUNDAY

Taupo Times, Volume III, Issue 140, 1 October 1954, Page 7

ON LICENSED PREMISES ON SUNDAY

EVENTS AT TERRACES HOTEL — 9 In the Magistrate's Court, Taupo, on Friday, September 24, before Mr W. A. Harlow, S.M., charges were preferred against five women and sixteen men of being found on licensed premises, namely the Terraces Hotel, Taupo, at a time when such premises were required to be closed. Sen-Sgt. Alsop (Rotorua) prosecuted. Evidence given by Sgt. A. Hunt and Constable McLeod, of Rotorua, was to the effect that they were members of a police party that raided the Terraces Hotel on Sunday, July 11, at 4.10 p.m. Some 22 persons were found in the public bar, which had the appearance of an ordinary days business being carried, on. ~One man had stated that he came to get a drink "because he felt crook." Another has said he had come twenty miles and had had only one drink and commented "Fancy coming all that way for one drink!" Constable McLeod stated that a number of the defendants had come 18 or 20 miles. Convictions were entered in all cases. Fines of £1/10/- with costs £1 were imposed on Jean Edwards, Evelyn Haumu, Jean McPherson, Annie Warren, Emily Wilson and Rangi Stubbing. Fines of £1/5/and costs £1 were imposed on Matthew C. Cooper, Frank Clarkson, Patrick Campbell, Jack Drummond, Gary Franklyn, Reginald Ernest Graham, John Henry Hogarth, Laurence Patrick Jans, Peter Henry Johnson, Jack Alfred Kelly, Pat Pirimona, Leonard Stanley Withey, Mattie Wilson. None of the foregoing defendants appeared. Matthew Warren, who appeared and pleaded guilty, was fined 15/- with costs £1.