WANGANUI PACKET LICENSES.
ALLEGED BREACH. PEtt PRESS ASSOCIATION. WANGisui, Januiry 18. At the S M. Court to-day Murdoch Sturt, master of th« rir«r steamer Manuwa, was charged with having sold liquor contrary to the terms of htt packet license. It appears )hat on Boxing Day the steamer lelt town for an all-day excursion She prcceodod abiut 20 milos where she was moored to a tr.e on the shore, and the pwengers disembarked. Four of them a or ly afterward* returned to the bo it and were served with liquor, Tin men stayed on board ft r the remainder of the time* that the vessel was moored and were servel with further drinks. After a stay of a couple of hours the steamer returned to town. For the proß eution it was held that the licensee bad, by selling when tha vessel hid finished her journey, infringed upon section 159 of the Lioan- [ sing Acj of 1881. F.t the deftnee it was argued that as the trip was advertised as an all-day | excursion the vessel's port of departure land definition was Wanganui, thus the stoppage was simply an inddirafc In the p'S«ag<\ ! Toe M g'gtnte reserved his dtoision.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 14, 17 January 1903, Page 2
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197WANGANUI PACKET LICENSES. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 14, 17 January 1903, Page 2
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