THE LICENSING ACT.
HASTINGS, February 2f.
At the Magistrate's Court this morning 1 , on a charge brought under section 46 of "The Licensing Act Amendment _ Act, 1904-," Alfred Clayton, for supplying a> Native with two bottles of beer, was "fined £10 and cost 1 ;. This case is the first of the kind. Defendant contended that he gave the liquor to the Native to carry home for him. WELLINGTON. February 21.
At the Magistrate's Court to-day Robert Wilson pleaded guilty to charges of unlawfully selling beer in a place of public convenience in Wellington. He was fined £10 and costs," or six weeks' imprisonment. James Robinson, for illegally selling .beer in a bottle yard in Wellington, was fined £5 and ccsts, or -three weeks' imprisonment on each of two charges. William Oody, for being illegally on the above-mentioned premises For the purposes of sly grogselling, was fined £2 and costs, oj: 14 days' imprisonment. Robert M'Nab pleaded guilty to a similar charge, and was fined 20s and costs, or seven days' imprisonment.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2815, 26 February 1908, Page 36
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171THE LICENSING ACT. Otago Witness, Issue 2815, 26 February 1908, Page 36
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