CURSE OF KING COUNTRY
YOUTHS AND KEG PARTIES
LIQUOR ORDERED BY PHONE From Our Own Correspondent TE KUITI, Today. “One of the curses of the King Country is young men, under age, being permitted to drink, around a keg.” remarked Sergeant Fearnley, at the Te Kuiti Magistrate’s Court, when Charles Will, carrier, of Te Kuiti, pleaded guilty to a charge of failing to give his name and address when ordering liquor intended to be sent into the Kawhia proclaimed area. The sergeant said the charge had been laid as the outcome of a complaint regarding drunkenness among certain youths at a keg parts’- .Will had ordered the liquor by telephone, and the order was executed by the publican, who had observed the requirements in regard to supply, but defendant had committed a breach of the law in not supplying his name and address in writing. Defendant was fined £5 and costs, 10s.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 835, 2 December 1929, Page 16
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152CURSE OF KING COUNTRY Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 835, 2 December 1929, Page 16
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