POLICE COURT.
TO-DAY'S SITTING AT PAEROA. LICENSING ACT BROKEN. (Before Mr J. H. Salmon, S.M.) ! rcderick Ngawiki, for whom Mr A. Go i vie appeared, was charged with being found in possession of a quart botrie of beer for consumption off Licensed premises on April 13. Defendant pleaded guilty. Constable McClinchy .said that while Constable Olson was on-duty on tlie Paeroa railway station the defendant got off the train with a bottle of beer. When questions by the police Ngawiki said that he had been given the beer, by a European for the purpose of handing it to a person on arrival at Paeroa. For tlie defence Mr Gorrie said that there were unfprtnuate circumstances surrounding the case, in that defendant had been asked to deliver the been but he refused. Later, under pressure, he bad consented to deliver the liquor, although he,, knew that hs was doing wrong. Defendant had refused to disclose the names of the Europeans concerned. Mr Gorrie asked that the offence bq treated as lightly possible, in view <:f the fact that defendant; had not profited himselt and realised that he was doing
wrung. Defendant was convicted-and fined 10s, with costs, 12s.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVI, Issue 4825, 4 May 1925, Page 2
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197POLICE COURT. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVI, Issue 4825, 4 May 1925, Page 2
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