MAORIS AND LIQUOR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 201, 14 August 1908, Page 2

MAORIS AND LIQUOR.

AN INXJiKKSIING JUDGMENT. By Telegraph.— Press Aa»ociatio». a* *.. .. . Marton, Lost Night; At the Martou Court to-day. before Mr. btanford, S.M., a case ol consider. ablu interest as between European and Alaori a a to the supply of liquor for consumption on' licensed premises wadecided, Aa information was brouiht against Geo. Oiibbg tor supplying liquoi to a Maori whilo in tho train, laid under section 40 of the Licensing Ac* Amendment. The police contended it wag the Intention of tho Legislature in amending the auction to prohibit Maoris fromob':'.iniug too much liquor other than at .;<>:."| g and to prevent them betas eu»pliwd at pahs. • * For the defendant it was contended .li.it the facts of tho caße, which were i"'t disputed, did not come within the \»mls of the section because liquor wag not supplied from or in connection with licensed premises. lli 3 Worship said ho was not coawrne.l with the intention of the Legist" lure or the spirit of tho Act. The words of the Act wve clearly expressed, and by them he was strictly bounds Therefore a white man'giving a Maori drink was limbic to a penalty of m! He was driven to this .conclusion, bub he doubted if the Legislature intended it to bo so. nig -Worship added that* it was a iiniqnu cas c , and he regarded it as a highly tecllniical otfenee of which accused was entirely ignorant. >As it wa s a test case n ono shilling flnisj without costs, would be inflicted. The. decision U to be appealed against.

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