LIQUOR AT CLUBS
ILLEGAL SALE. FINES AT CHRISTCHURCH. • (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, August 12. In the Magistrates’ Court today Alfred Leslie Bertie Smith (Rawhiti Golf Club), Percy Edward Brown (Monarch Cricket Club), Cyril George Sweeney (Shamrock Football Club) and Lawrence McLean West (Merivale Football Club), admitted having sold liquor without a* licence on their clubs’ premises. A fine of £5 was imposed in each case. Two constables had played a game of golf on the Rawhiti links on July 3 and nad afterward purchased liquor at the clubhouse, said Sub-Inspector Macnamara. On July 10 a raid had been made on the premises. Sergeant' J. Mclntosh, leader of the raiding party, said they had taken possession of 33 bottles of beer and a 10gallon keg of beer. Walter Francis Barber, secretary of a brewery, produced statements showing that 160 gallons of beer and 56 dozen bottles of beer had been ordered by the Rawhiti Golf Club over three months.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 August 1943, Page 3
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158LIQUOR AT CLUBS Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 August 1943, Page 3
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