LICENSING OFFENCES

Chronicle (Levin), 12 July 1947, Page 4

LICENSING OFFENCES

1 ■ ■ ■■■* MAORI LEADER eE^SURED BY MAGISTRATE Defendant Was' a well educatedy full blooded Maori and leader of the native people of Shannon, buthe was setting a bad example and adopting an aftitud'e not- in keeping with his position, said Sergeant W. Grainger during- the prosecutiOh of Wi Takeri' Kohika, in (th# Magistrate> Court, . Levin-, on Fri1day. Kohika was charged with aiding and abetting the supply of liquor to a native in a prohibi'ted area. Constable B. Watsion, of Shairnon, told the court that at 6.15' p.m. on June ,21 he had observed defendant in ,the maih street of Shannon" with a; bottle of b'eer under his- afni, When asked where' he obtained the. liquor, defendant had. stated' that he' had got it from an.unknown pakeha. "This man should sef ah example. He is in 'a respehsible position and should know b'ettpr," said Mr. A. M. Goulding, S.M., when entering a conviction and fining defendant £5. Court costs amount • ed t6- 10S, plus 5s for translatiqh fee. On a charge under the' same Ac% of havih'g tWo b'Ottles of beer in hi._ poss'essien, Jinimy Keriond, 6f Moutoa-, Foxton5, Wa's finhd' £$, '$&§■ 16s cOsts and 5s translatioh fee*. Liquor at Dance Charged with be'ing; in posses^ihh of liquor at a public dahcd at Ohiu on Saturday, June 7, Robert M:cGuigan, labourer, Otaki Railway, was conyicted aind fined £3;, with 12s costs. An order fcr the fbffeiture of the liquor was made by the magistrate.