SUNDAY LIQUOR TRAFFIC
To the Editor of the Evening Stae. Sib, —On reading your report of Saturday last of the charge brought against Mr Trimble for having sold liquor on a Sunday, I could not help noticing the rather invidious omission by your reporter of that portion of the evidence tendered for the defence, in which it was sworn that there was no rum in the house on the day in question, a statement in flat contradiction to that of the witness, which was corroborated by the police. It certainly was a singular defence to set up, that of having no ruin on that particular day in question, and might well call forth the remark "that it was evident there was perjury committed on one side or the other," the which I will leave the public to infer. iSTow, sir, not one word of the nature of the above appears in your report, which I think is unfair to the police and unsatistory to the public; who are in consequence unable to form an opinion. If reports are to be given at all they should be pro. and con., and not, as in the present case, show a decided leaning.
Yours, &c, Faib Plat.
[The omission arose simply from our being obliged to "cat down" our report for sake of space.—Ed. E. S.~]
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Auckland Star, Volume III, Issue 636, 25 January 1872, Page 2
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223SUNDAY LIQUOR TRAFFIC Auckland Star, Volume III, Issue 636, 25 January 1872, Page 2
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