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Hokitika Guardian, 29 June 1921, Page 3

, PKOFKSSOirs AHKKST. s MOW VOBK, Mii.v :i Tin* Van Ness Knforreim lit Lav comes into force in tin* State <>t Ncv t Jersey to-day. Any policeman win 1K “believes” that any person has liquo d on his person or in his motor car is cm 11 powered to carry out a search without i warrant. Similarly policemen may visi h any private house on the same ground t- ( i ‘‘belief.” If the owner of the lions a- refuses admission the officer is autlioi a- is(*d to break his way in. This piece ot “model Icgislation, ■ ae it is styled by Prohibitionists, is tli t- product of the brain of -Mrs Jenn nr Van Ness, one of the women memboi lie of tin State Legislature. A measure of comic relief to the: is- regulations is provided by the story th re comes from Boston of the arrest of I i id- lessor Louis Shaw, who occupied tl Efe chair of chemistry at Harvard, follm la- ing the discovery by the police that de had been running a whisky 'til! in ! ith house in one of the fashionable qua! ers of the city. The irofessor is qui ip. unable to understand the serious vn taken by the police inspector of I offence in maintaining tin illicit will's plant. “My clear fellow/' V I 'we’ve all got. tbern.”