SUPPLY OF LIQUOR.

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20275, 18 August 1937, Page 11

SUPPLY OF LIQUOR.

CLUB MEMBERS FINED. TE KUITI PROSECUTION. ILLEGAL ORGANISATION. (Special to Times.) TE KUITI, Tuesday. " Apparently Lins club was founded for the purpose of ‘ reading and reiresliing ’ bul there was more refreshing than reading,’’ slated Mr J. G. L. Hewitt, S.M. alter Sergeant Sparks had outlined the ease for the police in a prosecution in the Magistrate’s Court to-day when Anthony Moghan, president of an organisation styled " The Pakehas Gentlemen’s Club ” was fined £1 for being concerned in the management and a further seventeen peaple were fined a similar amount for being members of a club which was absolutely prohibited under the Licensing Act. The case created much local interest. Various pleas were entered. The following were the members fined: —W. Allen, L. IL Arnold, F. E. Burnell, P. Chisnall, H. T. Goff, W. T. Lupton, A. A. Mcßride, W. McGrath, R. Mends, O. N. Spinet to, E. G S. Tipping, W. Wills, S. lv. S. Tipping, D. R. Hutchins, William Maloney, William Fahey and Malcolm May. Orders for Liquor. Sergeant Sparks stated that when executing a search warrant on July 2 in Moghan’s premises the police found a list of members of the Pakehas Gentlemen’s Club. Several of these’ members were’ later interviewed and admitted signing their names as members of Meghan’s Club. Orders for liquor in members’ names were also found and liquor was also found addressed to Mends and Allen. The charge upon which the members were fined was:—That each was a member of an association known as the Pakeha Gentlemen’s Club (not being a chartered club) in premises in Taupiri Street, in which liquor was , j supplied to or procured by a member or anv* other person, being directly .I or indirectly^ paid for by subscriptions. I 1 h.M-s sriMiimv,lly nr tile lndividu.il mem- • , hers H> whom the liquor was supplied or who obtained it. Mochan was charged with boins j concerned In the management of nr i I illegal club and pleaded guilty. Mi • A. Paterson. wlm appeared fm • Moghan. said Ihe information relate, I | In exactly the same set „f circi.m----1 stances that resulted in Moghan be'ln.i ■ fined COO last Court day. As Mogh.ai I Mr Hewitt agreed that this must b< > considered and fined Moghan ft alon* { with the members.