LIQUOR IN "DRY" DISTRICT
TECHNICAL BREACH OF THE ACT Peb Pbess Association. v Pahiatua, February 25. Hugh Francis McLean, licensee of the Makuri Hotel, was charged with failing to furnish the clerk of the Court at Masterton with a statement in writing of the liquor sent into ho-, license district of Pongaroa. The facts 1 were that liquor was consigned to a man/who lived in the "wet" or sed district of Pahiatua, and that the man met the coach in the "dry" area and took the liquor home. The Magistrate remarked that the whole question was whether the. liquor was intended to "be taken into a no-license district, and he quoted the Act to show that an offence was created if the. liquor was taken into a no-license district, and that there was no necessity that the liquor should be actually consumed thdre. The Magistrate held that a technical breach' had been committed. The defendant was convicted and discharged. Another information . was dismissed. ~ '
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 46, 25 February 1915, Page 6
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163LIQUOR IN "DRY" DISTRICT Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 46, 25 February 1915, Page 6
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