KEEPING LIQUOR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 283, 2 May 1914, Page 5

KEEPING LIQUOR.

IN PKOHI.BITKI) AREA. AN AWAKINO CONVICTION. ' Mr. A. Crooke, S.M., has delivered his reserved decision in the ease in which Frederick Carrington, of Awakino, was charged in the Waitara Magistrate's Court last week with having unlawfully kept a case of whisky for a resident of Awakino. which is a prohibited area.

It will be remembered that at the waring of the case it transpired that Carrington had, at the request of a man named Preston, received the whisky and stored it at his stables for Preston.

For the defence, Mr. A. H. Johnstone admitted the facts, but contended that the clause of the Act under which the prosecution was brought, had been directed against the illicit storing of whisky in a prohibited area, and did not apply to his client, who had acted merely as an agent. In his judgment, Mr. Crookc, S.M., said that in the case under review, the information was laid under section 138 of the Licensing Act, 1910, which was intended to prevent the consumption of liquor in a prohibited area, excepting by residents or guests in the house into which it was brought. It was for the defendant to prove that he did not come under this section, which read that

it was unlawful for anyone to keep, store, or bring any liquor into a prohibited area for another person. He ield that this section distinctly applied to defendant, but remarked that the case called for only a. small penaltv. He would impose a fine of 10s and costs, the hitter to be adjusted at Waiters.