LIQUOR NEAR DANCES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 February 1941, Page 6

LIQUOR NEAR DANCES

PROSECUTIONS BY POLICE. ,i EVENTS AT TE ORE ORE. fl . r ! Several defendants appeared in the J Masterton Magistrate’s Court this ■ morning, before Mr H, P. Lawry, S.M.. ! on charges of being in possession of j liquor in the vicinity of a dance at the : Te Ore Ore Meeting House on Jattu- ! ary 25. ■ Cyril Douglas Goss and Daniel I Marlin Deegan for whom Mr S. V. i Gooding appeared, were each lined £3 j with Ills costs. Mr Gooding said no j liquor was consumed near the hall and there were no ladies in the party. .Another defendant. Arthur Cyril Duckmanton. on a similar charge, was also ■ lined £3 with ’Os costs Senior-Sergeant G, A, Doggett said ! ; tlie police had received many com- ] plaints regarding drinking in the vii einity of tlie Te Ore Ore Meeting | Home, and on several occasions the | police had been sent out. A similar charge was preferred j against John Leslie West. I'm” whom Mr R. it Eurridge appeared and eni ’.cred a pica of not guilty. I Mr Burridge said the defendant had ■ com- to the police on the morning of 'lie dance and complained of the exj cesses morally and from the m>ml of; j view of consumption of alcohol that ■ wen- L>kmg place at the dance hall al j lTv Or< Ore and a-in d that constables ■ ! should be sent out that night Two; I police officers attended that night and] ; defendant saw them d acting under their very observation, received Hulu- ' ceiith a bottle of b*-<»r fri.ni two, i young men He took ti; ( - fi.. o that i hhvy might be pursued by tin. poJlev ■ when they w.-i.t to their plant m get i sunn more. Defendant did n < intend | ■to ogi'ii the J:quur for i'insiini[,l.un land was going !■ :• .: home. lie , wem to -in- j,. h: c .Jkb'r:' : iii'ine. but siit' had begged him to alI low tier tn remem for two m ■ ;dan-; res I ff- hail neither c.ir law other •. <■- I hicle. He was actuallj trying to • .son in n forming utlim--: hl evidence, VT- ■ .d it ■ . emono 11 !!■;:•> t■ . s o . ■ , . , mornitp; on -me orc,. Toe tv. < ; had ■ fict ed ‘ !. in- ii>' o 1 v f- ■: haii g the ..1 < . i' h; .' HI h- -I?"'" U-ki. ■ ' ■' ’ - :■■■. • ■ No o.o; . ; ;e ( -e. ! I),‘. < : *> ' t. ' ' b'fn.mt ’o>. -■ , o o-dy lb '