LIQUOR IN NO-LICENSE AREA.

Shannon News, 4 February 1927, Page 3

LIQUOR IN NO-LICENSE AREA.

MANGAHAO IN MASTERTON DISTRICT. Charged before Mi J. L. Stout, S.M., at the Magistrate’s Court yesterday with taking liquor into a no-license area without a signed order, and with there keeping it for sale, Clifford Eric Hook and George Quarrie, of Shannon, carriers,, pleaded not guilty. Against the former there were additional charges of keeping liquor for sale in a noiictnse area and of failing to notify that liquor was intended for a nolicense area.

Defendants, who were represented by Mr Cooper, pleaded not guilty to all charges. The fads were that defendants had procured the liquor in Pal merston North and had taken it to Mangahao, which, the police contended, is in the Masterton no-license area, the reverse being contended by defendants. The case was originally celled the previous Monday, but was adjourned to permit of evidence being called on the point at issue. Yesterday William Jones, registrar of electors for Masterton, deposed that, at the last election, there had been either one or two Masterton electorate booths at Mangahao. William Augustus Hutton, engineer at Mangahao, produced plans of the locality showing that the junction of the Manawatu and Masterton electorates lay between Arapeti and Mangahao, the latter thus being in the Masterton electorate. A fine of £5 was imposed on the first charge, with costs £l2 5s 6d. 4»