A PROHIBITION DISTRICT.
CHARGES OF SUPPLYING LIQUOR
THE CASES DISMISSED
(Per Press Association.) r Ashburton, last night. 3 At tho Magistrate's Court tho caso r against tbo Timaru Browory, charged r with sending a package of beor into a noi license district without a statement attached describing the nature of tho contents, was dismissed. Tho Magistrate dolined n package as something that coetains liquor, tho actual appearanoo of whloh did not givo any indication of its contents. Suoh a doubt oould not be I raised in regard to ft ten-gallon keg of beer, whioh, in his opinion, was not a J package within the provisions of tho Act. I The oases against Sband and Company, I I ohargod with selling liquor, being aware it I was being sent to a no-liooneo district, and failing to forward a statement to the I autborilios, and with failing to altaoh a I statemont to tbo same Showing the nature I or tho contents, was dismissed, tho Magis- I t-a'o holding that tbero was no evidenoe ! to show that the firm knew the puiohaser who bought tho whisky in Christehuroh was going to take it into a no-lioenso I district. I
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1665, 3 February 1906, Page 3
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197A PROHIBITION DISTRICT. Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1665, 3 February 1906, Page 3
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