LIQUOR AT DON BUCK CAMP.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1649, 16 January 1913, Page 6

LIQUOR AT DON BUCK CAMP.

, AND A FINE OF iW. (By Tdetfraph.-Piwrj Absoftlntlofi.) 1 Auckland, January 16. i 'A elmrgo Hint ho. sold New Zealand wine, in lesser qunutity than two gallons against ti. Kwdnison wiilo growef .-nanied .* Ciiiit'ics; Metcilfo Was iuftdo thb hieliluin' of- Soiuo vei'y : plain. speakiilg by Chief- , Detcctivo M'Mhlioli this moflnJig oa \vliivt ' feces on-rtiund-.v notorious: spot known aa - JJoii ; 13uck's Camp,, and also some equally plriin' English lroia Mr, F. V. . I't'rtsor, ti.M.,..- aS.' to the necessity ftir ■ libfeheiiig « winu growers. V . '

Motcnifo: was' charged' that oh Sunday, November 17, he sold New Zcnlanilwino In lesser, quantity than two gallons to Henry Kennedy. \

■ Wiien his AVorshlp asked if tliehj veto ■ any previous convictions, tho* Chief-De-" teetive said there were not, but eonlpluitit nfter complaint 'lmd. gone/to the t pollco about Metcalfe, to thb effefct tliht lie Was systematically selling, winb in less'quantity than the statutory allowaiioe ot two . gallons. Prtinkbnness .of iuen and H'omen , lying by the roadside And in, thb tl-trfeo in the direction of Metcalfe's place, pointed to their having got wine . theicabolits, and ill quantities for which tliey , cqiild pay, while tho Cfffcet, Of the liquor indicated that it had beoii fortified, It * was known that defendant got schnapps in ' the city In considerable quantity. - Tli,it stato 6f ailalte, ■ ChiCf'Detiotivd 'M'MaliOn went on, was chiefly responsible fo3* keeping Dan, Bucks Cdmp thb place It was notorious for being. . . Mr.Eraser .Commented on l the tvldetiCo . given by MeWalfo liiinselfi that the man Kennedy had got two gallons of iviito on ; Sunday and two more on Monday, fobr 1 gallon? in two days. If thb■ statement; were true, it sebiUed bcyOlld What waa , proper. ' Anyway; tho camp had a bad • reputation, and a man ivho gretf graliM and inade wlnb should havo bCbn! cartful' about eelling linubf ,t6,go into tho. cfiiiip. Anyone-who sold liquor to go into, that • tamp, which was notorious, toolr serious . responsibility. It seemed to hisV\\ON, ship a great pity, that tllo law. did, not provide for (he licensing of pcOiilb w'ho inado and sold Nbiv Zealand wine. If. they sold less limit twft gallotls they had ' to liavo .a UcbiiFO.) ' If they sold moro • than two gallons they didn't uocd lo bo licensed. Where they lmd notorious . places like Bucks Camp, and ft Mali close' ■ by telling Unlimited qnitntities of liquor, > it seemed to him that ah uhseritptilcUs riinn might do a very great deal'of harm. It seemed to his Worship that someilijng might be done in thb way of lieensins the pcoplo who gi'CW grapes' and Ahlrt wine, then tho police and the Court could have a ; hold over the Sellers. The defendant' had not only tried io square Kennedy, but ho had gone into the box .and , committed grots perjury., : Though;' a first offender, so far as the Iaw.WAS Mn> ho would bo fined XiO and coSlt.