EFFECT OF ALCOHOL
STATEMENT BY THREE LEADING BARRISTERS. y 1. We are asked to advise succinctly what acts a person will be prohibited from doing if National Prohibition should come into force in New Zealand, pursuant to the provisions of the Licensing Amendment Act, 1918. 2. We advise that in that event a person may not do any of the following things: (1) Tie may not manufacture intoxicating liquor of any description, even for his own private, personal, or domestic use. (2) He may not import it into New Zealand. (3) lie may not sell it, or have it in his possession for the purposes of sale. 3. The doing of any of these.prohibited acts is constituted an offence, against the Statute, punishable by a fine not exceeding £IOO in the case of a first offence, and by imprisonment for a terra not exceeding three months in the case of a second or any subsequent offence. '(Signed) C. P. SKERRETT, K.C. A. GRAY, K.C. P. J. O’REGAN, Barrister and Solicitor. Wellington, March . 1919.
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New Zealand Tablet, 10 April 1919, Page 19
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173EFFECT OF ALCOHOL New Zealand Tablet, 10 April 1919, Page 19
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