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ANTI-SHOUTING CHARGES AT TIMARU.
TIMARU, Nov. Bth
The Stipendiary Magistrate was occupied most of the day in hearing charges respecting four town hotels, under the anti-shouting law. Three of the ca:ses were dismissed on the ground that the evidence of two special, constables was confused and unsatisfactory. In the fourth ease a; barmaid admitted serving a “shout,” and two customers admitted the purchase. The buyer said he had a “soft” drink himself, and if his friend had had this, and lie himself the ‘hard’ one, there would have been no offence. To Magistrate said that was so. Defendant said he thought it would he no breach of the law the other way. The customers were fined £5 each, and in tbe ease of the barmaid a fine of £1 was inflicted, with the loss of her license for six months.
■A BOY INJURED. j NAPIER, Nov. 12. I Jack Griggs, aged 16' was severely injured at Holt’s timber mill. He was j caught in the belting, his knee dislocated and his arm broken, and lacerations.
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Hokitika Guardian, 13 November 1917, Page 1
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