Good, if you could.
Mr 0. Kettle, R.M., of Wanganui, has laid it down from the Bench that when a mm is arrested for drunkenness the police should ascertain where he got the liquor, with -a view to proceedings being also ta'ien against the supplier, and he seemed surprised that the police had not instituted these inquiries. We quite hold that the man who who gets drunk and the man who supplies him with the liquor after he has got drunk are much on the same level in offending against the law, and both should be punished. It is easy enough to aay so but the very great difficulty is in proving the case. A. man may be found drunk by the police at some considerable distance away from where he obtained the liquor, and, judging by their statements in Court the ' drunk ' has a
v;ry \v\7.y notion as to where he was and what he had been doing for some hours previous to his arrest. The ' drunk*'s * evidence would be of little value did he venture An opinion, &s he may have strayed away from tha 'a^t public house ho remembers to have been in. It would also be a difficult matter for the police to prove that the pnblicati was aware* when servi-g the 'drunk r with liquor, that h« was roaly drunk, as men are fivqnentlya parently sober while they remain in duors and it is the co d air that causes the liquor to take that eftect which cause?) their Condition and so to their being apprehended. Magistrates and police are, alone, unable to fix the guilt of this conduct upon the publicans who do such things, nothing less than a vigilance society could secure conviction. In a few cases the police if they have nothing else to do might 1 shadow ' a suspect through the day, but probably it would be fruitless, as caution is not a quality wanting in those who do these deeds. We hold that a return to the old stocks would tend to reduce drunkenness more than the punishment now inflicted and that would be a fitting p ace to put the convicted publican, alongside of the fool, when he is caught.
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Manawatu Herald, 14 January 1893, Page 2
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371Good, if you could. Manawatu Herald, 14 January 1893, Page 2
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