LIQUOR AT DANCES
INADEQUATE PENALTIES. A MEMBER’S COMPLAINT. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. A complaint that inadequate penalties were being imposed by some magistrates in cases of convictions for drinking near dance halls was made by Mr Polson (Opposition, Stratford,, during consideration of the Estimates. He said the police were doing their best to clean up the evil,, but in some districts the penalties imposed by the magistrates were so trifling that it made one conclude they were in sympathy with the delinquent. Mr Sutherland (Opposition, Hauraki), said the police had done great work in his district in cleaning up the trouble of liquor at dances. At first fines of £5 were imposed, but now the Courts were imposing fines of £2, and the trouble was starting to recur. The Minister in Charge of Police, Mr Webb, said the question raised by the member for Stratford was really one for the Justice Department or the magistrates.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 June 1942, Page 2
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157LIQUOR AT DANCES Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 June 1942, Page 2
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