LIQUOR FOR "DRY" DISTRICT
• FAILURE TO FILE OEDERS. By Telegraph—Press Association. Dunedin, November 14. At the Police Court this morning Briggs Bros., trading as J. and R. Briggs, were charged with failing to file certain orders for liquor sent into a NoLioonse district, and to produce the same when requested by the police. It was stated by the police that the defendants produced orders at the first request. One of these orders was declared by the police to be a forgery. Defendants Tβfused to givo up possession of or to allow a tracing to be made of the alleged forged order.
Defendants' counsel put in two orders, which he said were those shown' to the police, but both constables swore that one was not one of those previously shown.
Mr. Young, S.M., said he thought the oider which the defendants in this case had refused to produce had probably .been destroyed with the intention to stifle prosecution. Defendants) would be fined the maximum penalty, ,£SO.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 44, 15 November 1917, Page 5
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165LIQUOR FOR "DRY" DISTRICT Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 44, 15 November 1917, Page 5
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