BREACH OF LICENSING ACT

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10678, 26 July 1912, Page 5

BREACH OF LICENSING ACT

DAXNEVIRKE CASES. (By Teiegrapn —Press Association.) DANNEVIRKE, Last Sight. Mi- S. E. McCarthy, S.M., was occupied to-day in hearing a charge against Hy. Baker, licensee of the Club Hotel", for allowing youths under the age of 21 years to he supplied with liquor for. consumption on the promis'!?. Colin Douglas, Hy. Baker and Annie Baker (wife of the licensee) were charged with supplying liquor to youths for consumption on the premises. The youths were alleged to have purchased whisky and drunk it in a private room.. The licensee said that he turned them out when lie learned that youths were on the premises. The other defendants did not rememW serving them, Decision was reserved. Afl employee of the firm was fined £1 for supplying liquor to a native woman, such liquor not being supplied for medicinal purposes upon the authority of a. registered medical practitioner. The liquor was bought and sent to the pa at Tahoraiti for' the purpose of entertaining the Dannevirke Hunt at the conclusion of a recent run. The drink was not partaken of by the natives. The purchaser was charged with taking intoxicants into the pa. Counsel contended that the carrier who took the liquor to the pa should have been charged with the offence. Decision was reserved.