"INVERKEGVILLE!"

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 71, 15 July 1914, Page 6

"INVERKEGVILLE!"

Three young men formed the subjects of an interesting case at Invercargill on Wednesday. They were charged with vagrancy, and with being illegally on licensed premises. Mr Tipping defended the accused. Tho Southland Times, ijni a lengthy report, states that the Magistrate (Mr Thomas Hutchison) imposed fines of £5, in default a month's imprisonment, in two instances, and £2 or a fortnight's imprisonment in one case. One witness said there were hundreds of keg parties around.lnvercargill. He was . a married man, and was to have been brought up that morning for failing to maintain his wife. He had earned £3 or £4 during the last three or four months. He had had liquor while scene-shifting at the theatre, but was not one of those concerned in the disturbance recently referred to in the 2 apers. Mr Tipping said that it was < >mmon knowledge that a great a icant of drinking went on in these p ices. Men who had rooms, or who h longed to.a club, could go there and d ink their liquor. Unfortunately, (' ese men were not wealthy enough t ) belong to clubs, and had to take I eir beer in the open. If the licensing i w introduced by Mr Seddon, which i ovided for no-license no-liquor, had I sen brought into effect these things .ould not be carried on. This law had ■een objected to, and, as a result, the nen were made victims of an unreasonable law. The defendants admitted having had the beer. He asked that they bo dealt with leniently, as all the accused had work to go to. The Mag- : istrate said that it was quite true that keg parties were a common institution, and the name "Inverkogville," as he had once heard it termed, seemed a very appropriate one. The practice of . i HSirrri'iT liquor on private property k ■ a ivr.-n/iensible one, and must be. • pvi': ' 1 (W», - >; > there was in it great