CARRYING LIQUOR TO RPOHIBITED PERSONS.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 144, 2 May 1901, Page 3

CARRYING LIQUOR TO RPOHIBITED PERSONS.

TO THIS EDITOR. Sir.—ln inflicting a fine of JBIO in the case before th.t Court on Thursday Major Keddell the S. M. commented on the fact that in everv community where there ate a number of prohibited men there was, unfortunately, always some idle person who would carry liquors to them. These cases were » difficult to prove, and more So because ■the person supplied deemed if, from a mistaken sense of honour, his duty to gc into the witness box and pjrjure himself to screen the accused. Taking ihese things into consideration, incases where he was fully satisfied of the guilt of the accused, as he was in this case, he would inflict a heavy penalty. I am glad to see the S.M, taking this stand, and hope the penalty will deter some of the gentry who are so ready to carry liquor to men who, unable to ! protect themselves, have been placed . under the protection of the law. These prohibition orders, originally looked upon as a boon to helpless inebriates, have become-a bye word through the .difficulty found in preventing the supply of liquor by persons who pose as friends to these prohibited men. I havo in my mind a-ease of a prohibited person recently seen with a handful of - -one pound iiotfes in his" possession. Little has been seen of this man outside his own house for a fortnight or so, A man suspected by the police of supplying prohibited persons has I been a frequent visitor to the place, and a chance call by a neighbour as this man left the place disclosed the fact that the prohibited person was "drunk. Tanse facts carry their own interpretation. The suppliers are detested by all right minded persons, and in view of the difiiculty of detec tion and proof in these cases (the liquor must be seen to pass from one to tha other, and mast be seized), I «ougratulate Constable O'Halloran on the success which has in this case rewarded his cdhstant vigilance.- -I am, etc.,