TUAPEKA POLICE COURT.
(Before Major Croker, It.M.) Mary Ann Barber, AY. Jones, and George I)eo were charged by Sergeant-Major Bracken under the -22nd clause ofthe Licensing Ordinance of ISSI with having exposed for sale various fermented and spirituous liquors. Sergeant- Bracken stateel that acting on instructions he had visited the places of bus nass of the defendants, and had found on the premise's various bottles of gin, brandy, wine, &c., which he had soused, and he now asked his Worship to inflict the penalty provided by the Ordinance, viz., a fine of fiftypounds. After some consideration his AVorship stated that he would remand the defendants to the Ist of April, in order to enable him to obtain the opinion of the Crown Solicitor as to the applicability of the 22ud clause of the Licensing i Ordinance to the goldfields. The defendants ] were; accordingly remanded on bail. There is no < penalty provided by the Ordinance in default of ' payment of the fine, and as the Goldfields Act I passed prior to the Licensing Ordinance of 1861 provides for the manner in which spirits shall be sold on the diggings, it is somewhat difficult to understand how a conviction can be obtained un- x der the 22ud clause of the present Act. i
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 99, 11 March 1862, Page 7
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211TUAPEKA POLICE COURT. Otago Daily Times, Issue 99, 11 March 1862, Page 7
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