THE NEW LICENSING ACT
AX UNLOOKED-FOR RESULT. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wailri, Last Night. The first case in the Dominion under the new Licensing Act was heard at the Magistrate's Court to-day, when IT. Devcrell, a coach proprietor, was charged with storing liquor, the charge being laid under section 38 of the Act.
Evidence showed that a case of liquor, consigned to a local resident in care of defendant's partner, was conveyed from the railway station to defendant's stables and stored there for half an hour, when the police entered and seized the liquor. The police contended that this was a breach of the Act, as- no exception was made of carriers. In giving his decision, the Magistrate, Mr. Burgess, said that in'■his opinion the law did not intend that temporary detention of liquor in the hands of a carrier constituted storing. The case was dismissed.
In another case against a private resident, in which the latter pleaded guilty to storing under the same Act, the defendant was fined 40s and costs.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TDN19101214.2.51
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 210, 14 December 1910, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
171THE NEW LICENSING ACT Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 210, 14 December 1910, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Taranaki Daily News. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in