MASTERTON NOTES

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3093, 25 May 1917, Page 6

MASTERTON NOTES

By Telegraph—Special Correspondent. Masterton, May 24. A case of interest as affecting NcLieenso areas was heard iu tho Magistrate's Court to-day, when the licensee of tho Tiiueru Hotel was charged with selling liquor to be delivered in a NoHcenso area, without receiving a written order. Defendant had delivered "tnree bottles of whisky, for which he received an order, and five bottles of beer, for which no written order was given. The question for decision of the Magistrate was as to the "intention of the Legislature as expressed in tho Act. Mr. Ken - , S.M., held that a person was'enlitlcu under the principal Act to take- a gallon of beer or a of whisky into a .No-license area without signing for it. Rα suggested that' if tho polico were dissiijisficd with his Tilling, nil appeal should bo lodged. A young man named I.a Roche' was fined £1 and costs in tho Magistrate's Court to-day for making a false- declaration to tho Railway Department. He sent a box of homing pigeons to Levin, where ho claimed them,. but a porter said they had been addressed to the slationmastev (or liberation.

Messrs. 13. G. Eton, A. W. Hojjg, ami T. B. AMolicil have Seen- elected members of tlio Masterton Trust Lands Trust unopposed.