DRINKING ON SUNDAYS

Taranaki Daily News, 19 September 1940, Page 9

DRINKING ON SUNDAYS

POLICE VISIT TO |IOTELS HAWERA LICENSEE FINED A complaint that Sunday drinking was going on in Hawera hotels was bound to be substantially correct, said SeniorSergeant I. H. Mathieson in the Hawera court yesterday, when Susan Monica Fahy, licensee of the White Hart Hotel, Hawera, admitted selling liquor after hours on September 1. She was fined £6 (costs 10s). . With Constable J. Orr he visited the White Hart Hotel at 8.30 a.m. on Sunday. September 1, said Senior-Sergeant Mathieson. The licensee, Mrs. Fahy, met them»as they entered the hotel and told them to go into thc bar, whcre they found two men with liquor before thern. The men admitted that Mrs. Fahy served them with the liquor. _ A nian and a woman were work ing in the bar, and the woman denied that she served the men. When Mrs. Fahy returned to the bar she said she did not know the men were on the premises. "A complaint came to the P°i/C® several days before to the effect that Sunday drinking was going on between 8 am. and 9 a.m.. and when we entered the hotel we found the complaint substantially correct," said Senior-Sergeant Mathieson. . . Mrs. Fahy and her son were working in the bar 'when the men came m, one of them being a barman in another 'hotel, and she did not like to refuse them. said Mr. G. H. Ryan who appeared for Mrs. Fahy. She left the bar and did not know the men were still there when the police entered. He suggested that the offence was not a serious one and should be dealt with leniently. "The licensee has been convicted tour times since 1937, twice at Manaia, and twice at Hawera," said Mr. Salmon. On the last occasion she was fined £3, ana on this occasion she will be nnea £o (costs 10s)."

Prevailed on to Break Law. . "By going into hotels after hours, and no doubt pestering the' licensees, you really prevail upon them to break tne law," said Mr. Salmon when he imposed fines of £2 (10s costs) upon.Chanel Joseph Cullinan and Raymond Hammond, who admitted bemg on the premises of the White Hart Hotel after hours. For aiding and abetting_ Mrs. Fahy in the commission of an ottence, the selling of liquor after hours, the men were convicted and ordered to pay costs amounting to 10s each. Harry Good, Alexander Hamilton, C. J. Cunninan and R. Hammond, who ad- ! mitted being on the premises of the Dominion Hotel, Hawera, after hours on August 25, were each fined £2 (costs 10s). ■