LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 28, 2 June 1915, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

At the Wellington Magistrate's Court to-day. George Kdward Hansen, charged with taking liquor into Trentham Cam]), and also supplying whisky to a member of the otli Kein*>rcea'cnts, represented himself as a Stall Sergeant-Major from Dargaville. Inspector Hendry said the Camp Commandant desired him to point out tint -■.erious nature of the offence. Liquor was the probable cause of all the trouble in camp, and further, had a Jetermined effect <m discipline. ft liquor were taken into camp by Grangers, the regulations concerning ,'isitors would have to be more stringently adhered to. The Magistrate <aid that if Hansen was a SergeantMajor he should have known the re-

gulations. On the first information he would line him £o or one month's : i!;prisonment. and on the second information £lO or two moths, the terms ;o he cumulative. P.A.

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