SALE OF LIQUOR.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 593, 13 August 1913, Page 4

SALE OF LIQUOR.

- ♦ TE KUITI LABOURER CONVICTED. £2O FINE IMPOSED. At the Hamilton Court yesterday, before Mr E. Raweon, S.M., Herbert Eraser pleaded guilty to a charge of taking liquor to Te Kuiti, being a proclaimed area, also to two charges of ortloriiilS bottles of whisky and failin.!: to supply the vendor with his pro-p.-r ar.mc and address. ,lo a charge ! I); liquor for sale he pleaded I c ( r/ i ,int Rowell prosecuted. | ; : id McCarthy, clerk'of the court j ;t{ Ti Kuiti, produced notice* showing | ;hat on .1 uly :ilst he received notice of | i n bottles consigned to J. H. Thompson, on August 2nd 12 bottleß were notified a being consigned to T, H. Eraser. He had received no notice of a case delivered on August 7th. Sergeant Rowell said that he noticed a case of whisky at Te Kuiti railway station on August 2nd addressed to Fraser, and suspecting something he impounded the CBBe but afterwards handed it over to accused. On August 7th he saw accused in the (ruin acting in a suspicioUs way. Witn< found in the train a dress basket containm,".- 1(5 bottles of whisky, and defendant afterwards admitted that Hie whisky was his. Accsued said that be had never sold a bottle of whisky in his life. His Worship said that it had been proved th.it the whisky was in acpossession, and it rested \vi;.h him to prove that it wan not kepi "or sale. Serprant Rowell said that he had no hesitation in paying that accUßed had b.-en livine on the weaknesses of his fenewincn by selling grog. He had hern is the district about three months ami was ,t labouring man entirely j without means. : On ihe first charges of having ob- | inin.'ii liquor he was convicted and i iiif-rhari;rd, but on the chaPge of keep- | in;: liquor Cor sale he was fined £2O, ;;i tiefauli (wo months' imprißon- | men!. Cost amounted to 225. On | >\londay Eraser appeared before j Mr J. l ammadge J.P. at Te Kuiti on I a chargo of vagrancy and was sen- ! tented to 7 days imprisonment.