BREACH OF PROHIBITION.

Taranaki Daily News, 2 July 1920, Page 4

BREACH OF PROHIBITION.

WARNING TO THE PUBLIC. In imposing fines upon several de« fendants who appeared at the New Ply. mouth Magistrate's Court yesterday, charged with assisting a prohibited person to consume liquor, ld(f. T. A. % Bailey, S.M., expressed the opinion that men who procured liquor for a prohibited person were worse offender* than the map against whom the order.,Wis issued, A prohibited person was often unftblc to resist the • temptation' tfhen liquor was offered to him, and fdr this reason it Was his intention in future to malct the flues on persons charged with assisting a prohibited person to procure 01 consume liquor much heavier. • / The Magisterial comment wai ih( outcome of a series of three ohargei against John George Harry Blane, s prohibited person,, of procuring liquor Jm •two occasions, and with ■ having beer found on licensed premises, James Nevin, Gustave iSuhr.'and James Crone were charged with having assisted Wane to consume liquor, the two fqnnor on Juno 19, and the latter on June 10. Constable Wroblcnski said thataftei watching the movement* of the defend' ants for some time, he imw« them gc behind the Terminus Hotel. ■.-•Witriesi saw Blane produce a bottle, which Wat passed round, and, when it was nearl} empty, Blane said: '"I'll finish it, boys!" Witness then hopped over the fence and said: "I'll have it after you 7 tod!" Nevin and Suhr both knew that Blani was prohibited. The Magistrate fined Blane £2 and costs, in default 14 days' imprisonment with hard labor on each of the three charges, the sentences to be cumulative, and fined Nevin, Suhr, aftd Crone n similar amount each, with the same alternate. ; "