THE SUPPLY OF LIQUOR TO DRUNKARDS.

Kumara Times, Issue 1575, 14 October 1881, Page 2

THE SUPPLY OF LIQUOR TO DRUNKARDS.

+ . The provisions of the new Licensing Act are very stringent in reference to the sale of intoxicating liquor to persons addicted' to excessive drinking. Clause 167 reads as follows:

" When it shall be made to appear in open Court that any person by excessive drinking of liquor misspends, ' wastes, or leksous his or her health or endangers or interrupts the happiness of his or her family, the justices presiding in such Court shall, by wilting under the hands'of any two such justices, forbid any licensed person to sell to him or herany liquor for the space of one year, and • such justices or any other two justices may at the same or any other time in like manner forbid the sellin? of any such liquor to the said drunkard by any such licensed person of any other city, town or district, to which the drunkard shall or may be likely to resort to the same." The penalty provided for a breach of this section is a sum not exceeding £lO. This clause, of course, only comes into force after due notice has been given to the publicans. The Dunedin Herald of Saturday says :—The first time that the clause referred to has been put into operation since the passing of the Act occurred

yesterday at the City Police Court, when William Alexander, charged with attempting to commit suicide, was bound over for twelve mouths hi his own recosjnisunces of £SO, and it waS ordered hy the presiding Justices that notice should he yiren to the publicana in the city that they were not to supply him with liqtlor till the stated period had expired. The Beucli remarked that the attempt of the accused to commit suicide was due to his being a habitual drunkard,, and they thought he was a fit subject to bring under the clause in question.

By a telegram received yesterday, we leafcn that the licensed Victuallers in Dunedin hare been supplied with a notice tinder the new Act, cautioning them against supplying liquor to Alexander, who recently attempted suicide; and the publicans \Vant to know how to recognise him.