EKETAHUNA-MONDAY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2646, 13 July 1887, Page 2

EKETAHUNA-MONDAY.

(Before A. Anderson and S. Yon Reden, -. . J.P.'s) \ , , • " OF LICENSING ACT. - i; John Ttfck,"licensee of the. Eketahuna :.Hotol,*w!is charged with supplying liquor on Sunday, July-3, to, ono. Arthur Small. Constable Healy conducted tho case on behalf of the police, . Arthur Small deposed chat 011 the date specified he purchased a bottle of rum from the barman of tho hotel for which hepaid,'.(ii)(l also paid for two drinks supplied, On going home, met Constable Healy near tho Club. During a conversation with him, the Constable took the bottle from witness's outside pocket, and asked hiirwhere he got itfroiii, and he told him. • By Mr Tuck—Constable Healy took tho bottle out of my bottle without ask-ing-for it:- "' •Mr Tuck—That is rather a peculiar thing for a policeman to do. By Constable Healoy—You asked mo where I had been arid what 1 had m my pocket before.taking it out. •W. White stated that on tho evening of the 3rd inst. he was with last witness at 'the Ekotahuna Hotel, when they each had a drink, for,,which Small paid. Also saw Small get a' bottle of rum and pay for it,; By Mr Tuck: Did not exactly soo the money.pass, but heard it rattle into the ■Barman's hands, and then into the till, Jack the barman told me to go away when he was supplying the bottle of grog. • John Lanson, barman, stated that Mr Tuck had given him instructions to nevor supply-, anyone with liquor 011 Sundajs.},; Mij,Tuok knew nothing about witness, supplying Small. Small told witpess he had a veiy bad cold when he asked for the rum, and as lie was living at a long distance from the hotel, be !wd |iq pa doing right in supplying him/'' 1

•t . said ho was against supplying Mple'oii Suudayt, but that the Constable had told him he had a right'to da bo. Was quite ignorant of tho fact that tho rum had been supplied, until he heard that he was to be summoned for Belling on a Sunday. • . . . . The Court said they must put a stop to Sunday trading and fined defendant 20a and 14s coats, the conviction to be endorsed on the license.