THE LIQUOR ACT.
MOID APPLICATION OP THE LAW, ***
(JVr Press Association.) 'Pi. r, WAIHI. Feb. 38, a well-known business man, wijS .day nncd a. „„„ , or B licensed premises after hours Th. evidence showed (hat his vi { e j?d taken seriously ill at eleven o'etoeic at night at his house next to tti i ufl} ioy ,iolel ' fltergeaafc Shechan on watch outside. Mr Gardner appealed to him for penniMtou to get some gin for her. Oarrfner whom the police admitted to fok sow citizen, asked the sergeant to come with him to satisfy himself regarding his wife's illness. Tirta ttaa sergeant refused to do. Gardner then returned home, but nudtng his wife no better, returned to U» hotel in desperation end got soma gin whereupon Sergeant Shechan accost* ed him. The case, aroused great public indignation, and there is * general opinion that there should have been no prosecution. The fine and legal costs were promptly paid by public subscription as a protest | against the action of the police, tha amount being offered twenty-fold.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7747, 24 February 1905, Page 2
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172THE LIQUOR ACT. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7747, 24 February 1905, Page 2
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