SLY GROG CASES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1390, 27 February 1905, Page 3

SLY GROG CASES.

'(Per Press 'Association.)

Auckland, last night. Thirteen prosecutions have just _ been concluded by tho Crown under tho Licensing Aat against persons dealing in liquor within tho prohibited area of the King Country. Mr S. Mays represented tho Crown. At To Awamutu on Thursday last, boforo Mr H. W. Northoroft, S.M., O. L. Innos, of Hamilton, brewer, was convicted, and ordered to pay £5 16s 4d | costs for sending to persons residing in the prohibited area a barrel of beer whioh I did not bear a statement on tho outside j that it contained liquor. _ I ivfi- MoDiarmid, for tho defence, in this I oaso contended that tho ordinary beer I duty stamp was a compliance with the J Act. This was over-ruled by tho magis- I

crate. Frederick plier was conviotod and fined £5 and costs for taking a portmanteau from Te Awamutu to Te Kuiti, containing liquor, without tho portmanteau bearing a l label to that effect on the outside. I W. Walsh was convicted and fined Ho f and £7 Os 8d costs for taking a hamper I eontaining eight dozen bottlos of beer [ from Mangapehi to Tiroa without a similar label on tbe outside of tho hamper. John Peroival Laurie was fined £3 and j costs for sending three barrels of beer to Taumarunui without a label. On a charge j of sending liquor to Taumarunui which 1 he had reasonable grounds to suspeot was I intended to bo sold within a prohibited I area, he was also fined £5 and costs. I Tho magistrate at the To Awamutu I cases warned all persons concerned in the j liquor traffic against the use of consign- I meat notes containing fictitious names, I and against dealing with reputed sly-grog I sellers. I