THE LICENSING ACT.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 12 July 1913, Page 5

THE LICENSING ACT.

FURTHER ALLEGED BREACHES. I y PENALTIES IMPOSED. In th© Magistrate's Court at M-as-- | terton yesterday; before Mi- L. G. Read, S.M., Bertram Thomas Ghaflis, of Carterton, was dharged on two informations with having sold liquor, intended to be taken to the No-Keens© district of Masterbon, in compliance with order s received from George Jackson and Alfred Langley, and with having failed ,to furnish the clerk of the Magistrate's Court at Mastarton with a statement in writing of the nature and quantity of the liquor so taken. Sergeant Miller appeared for the prosecution, and Mr G. H. Oullen for the defendant. The evidence of the police showed that the liquor had been purchased on a Friday, and the notice had not readied the Clerk of tlhe Court until Monday morning. Mr Cullen stated that the sale had been ma<le late on Friday, and the notice had been posted on Saturday afternoon. This was considered -early enough. Mr Oullen urged that, if a mistake had been ,mcde, it was only of a technical character. There was no intention to defy the law. Sergeant Miller pointed cut th-t the defendant had previously been fined for a similar offence. His Worship iir."os?d a pena! f y of 20s, with costs 7s, oi, lie first oh. ge, and entered a com ict...n on the second. A. 0. Halloran was charged . i having kept liquor for sale in a i -- license area. The prosecution provxl that defendant had be?n four d with two bottles of whisky in his sion, which he refused to account frr*. Mx G. H. Cullen, who appeared" i • the defendant, called three witnes;. ; to show that the liquor was procure! ' in a legitimate way, and was not kept for sale. His Worship decided that the case for the prosecution had been proved, but yielded to a pica of leniency on the part of counsel, and imposed a. nominal fine of 40s and costs, at tb<> same time wn ruing accused against a further brcn: ;h of the Act.