A SERIOUS CHARGE.
(Fboh Ovn Own Correspondent.) AUCKLAND, September 6. At the lianukau Licensing Committee's meeting to-day, the wife ot a Papakura settler appeared with -a baby in her arms, and made a serious charge as to her hueband having been supplied with liquor and given credit for liquor, although he was a prohibited person. Constable. Lanigan said the man was a settler of Papakura. He was a prohibited) person, but had' be^n in a continual state of drunkenness for the last three weeks. He (the con-stable) had appealed to the licensees of both hotels not to supply prohibited persons with liquor, and they had promised to help him. He was not in a position to say whether the man in. question had obtained hie drink from either of these two houses, but he had ' been getting a tremendous amount of drink from somewhere. The chairman suggested a fortnight's adjournment to go into the question. Mr O. Nicholson, oji behalf of the licensee of the Papakura Hotel, objected, as also did Mr Gregory, who appeared for the licensee of the Globe Hotel. The chairman said an adjournment was due to the licensees. The settler's wife had made a complaint, and evidently believed slic had good grounds for doing so, but sha had sprung a surprise on the licensees. If the latter had nothing to fear they fhould court the fulk-st inquiry. The court then adjourned until September 20.
Tl"»viugh the kind offices of Air Tas. SiiK-ltoy. now residinsr in North Devon, TC'ijrl.ind, the Southdown breeders in En^lnnd have presented the Manawatu A. and P. A^soriation with a very handsome silver ohampion <uip, for competition at the show here. The cun will bear the followino' inscription : " Presented by the Southdown breeders in England for tli^ best Southdown ram, not exceeding 18 months, and sired by an imported sheen, exhibited at the Manawatu A. and P. Show." The cup is to be won twice in succession by the one exhibitor, or three times at intervals. Mr Stuckey, during lih residence in New Zealand, was on a of the. bigprost exhibitors at the A. anrl P. show, and «!«•> en" of the ''lardest-working niomLers of the exo;uti> e»
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Otago Witness, Issue 2895, 8 September 1909, Page 60
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364A SERIOUS CHARGE. Otago Witness, Issue 2895, 8 September 1909, Page 60
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