BREACH OF LICENSING LAW.
MAXIMUM PEXALTY IMPOSED. , By Telegraph.—Tress Association. Dunedin, Last. Xight. At the Police Court this morning Rr'ggs Bro=. (trading as ,T. R. Briggs) were charged with failing to file certain orders tor liquor sent into a no-license district, and to produce same when requested by the police. It. was stated by the police that, defendants produced I lie orders at the first request. One of these orders was declared by tlu> police to be a forgery. Defendants refused to give, up possession of or to allow a tracing to bo made of the alleged forged order. Defendants' counsel put in two orders, which, he said, were those shown to the police, but both constable? swore that one was not one of those previously shown. Mr. Young, S.M., said he thought the order which the defendants in this case had refused to produce had probably been destroyed, with the intention to stifle the prosecution. Defendants would be fined the maximum penalty of £.X).
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Taranaki Daily News, 15 November 1917, Page 8
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165BREACH OF LICENSING LAW. Taranaki Daily News, 15 November 1917, Page 8
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