MASTERTON LIQUOR CASES.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1002, 17 December 1910, Page 14

MASTERTON LIQUOR CASES.

TWO PENALTIES. . 11l the Magistrate's Court at'Masterton yesterday, before Mr. L. G. Rcid, 5.M.,-a-young man named Albert Haj-es Marsh was, charged with a breach of tho Licensing Act in (1) having sent liquor into' the No-License district of Masterton, without marking it to the effect that it contained liquor, and (2) that 110 failed to notify the vendor that ha was a resident in the No-License area. Sergeant Miller prosecuted and Mr. C. H. Cullen appeared for accused, who; pleaded-not guilty. He was lined 405., and 7s. costs, on tho charge of failing to mark the liquor,- and was convicted and discharged' on tho second charge. ■ Thomas Jackson, another young maii, ■was.then charged with having given an order for liquor for another person in a No-License' district, without having given tho name and address of such person. Mr. Cr. H. Cullen, for tho accused, entered a plea of not guilty. After hearing evidence his Worship said that it was clear to him that tho liquor had been purchased for consumption by others. Accused had been used as a. dummy> He. would be-'.fined, £2, with lis. costs, and 10s: witness's expenses.

Albert Hayes Marsh 1 - was furthor charged with a breach of tho Licensing Act in keeping-liquor for sale within a No-License ' ."Evidence'was given to tile effect that accused had' ordered a case of beer from Mangatainoka and had sent it to tho house of one Brown. He had told .the Sergeant, of Polico that lie - had sent it to his own house. The polico when they visited, Brown's, house had been told that it was not there. . It had subsequently "been found that the beer, was at Brown's.. Defendant, ill evidence, admitted, having sent the ,beer to Brown's. He had done so because his father was ill. at his own house. He-had never offered the beer -for sale. His. Worship stated that the caso was suspicious. Ho would, howover, give the defendant the benefit of the doubt, and. dismiss tho information.