GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 September 1915, Page 5

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

A LIQUOR CHARGE. ' M By Telegraph.—Press Association, ; rl ? Dunedin, Last Kight, ■ '-5 In the City Police Court to-day, be- "'j fore Mr. Bartholomew, S.M., William ' v £ Crossan, licensee of tho Waterloo Bote), J was charged with selling, supplying, or sending liquor (three bottles of whisky) ■ to J. Buchanan, of Owaka, which wa« '•.fti intended to be taken into a no-licenso district, except in pursuance of the term> j| of order signed by and stating the *d-' ilress and occupation of the purchaser.. The liquor was supplied on feceipt of ft' S money-order telegram, and the oonten- fj tion of the police was that a transcript \j[ of a telegram was no such order as was > required by the Licensing Amendment , Act, 1014, and that the original doett- -s}j niont made by tile person ordering the ;;v! liquor was the one that must be ( filed. Counsel for defendant contended ' -L tho telegram was an order within the Vj meaning of the section, that a transcript . ,;|g of any telegram was such order, and that l in this case jt was an order signed by, J and staling the address and occupation of the purchaser. Decision was reserved, _ - ' 1 ,i«j