THROWING OF EGGS

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10525, 12 January 1912, Page 4

THROWING OF EGGS

ON EJECTION NIGHT.

A OHMSTaRCK/OH: CASE.

(Bu i'ekgraph — l'ress Association.)

CHRISTCHUiRCH, Last Night.

'Hie Cbristehuroh Licensing Comunit tee sat to-day to hear n complaintlodged against Warner'6 Hotel that on the general election rotteia eggs .were tltrown' from the building. The police evidence was to the effeofc that the eggs were thrown from the balcony, or other (part of the building .where people congregated to Bee the posting o* the election res'iilis. For the defence, evidence was caHied to (prove that no eggs were thrown. The committee retired to consider their findUng, and on returning , th& chairman (the Rev. it. S. Gray) said the committee considered the police were abundantly justified in bringing the charge. They aid not for a momeat agree that the matter was a 6tonni in a. tea-cup, as had been suggested. The committee believed that the police had quite .proved their case. The evidence led for the defence waits purely negative, and the committee accepted .absolutely "the. evidence given, by the .police, as to the fact. The committee did hot -tihinfe shat the licensee (Mr Palmer) wasr personally - connected, with the offences, and they oruade allowances. . for tfii© -fact that it was election nigh*, and thai Ma Palmer could not exercise .same supervision over -the) hotel'that he was suipiposed to-do, and .presumably did. do on ordinary The.'committee reprehended'- very strongly toe language which Mr tPaJJmer was. declared to haw used to the police, and which had not been denied by haim. The committee disapproved also of the sugr gestion which Mr Palmer anade to Sergeant Miller that if the Sea-geanh waited upon him' in private clothes he> would find him a man. The •oomimittee held very strongly that that 6h.0u.1d not he the attitude bf a Kch ensee of a public house to any police officer, for an officer of the police - wasvialways ah officer of the police s» fiar asi a- public Qiouise was concern-* ed. The committee did not think they were justified in taking any Motion in regard to the licensee in.view: of the. special circumstances of, ib® case, bait they believed the .polipo were absolutely justified in bringing thfe'charge, and that on the.evidence) the charge would oe upheld. ." ' _