SALE OF LIQUOR.
11ATAUBA TEST CASE. '■} (By Telegraph—Press Association.) ——— I INVERCARGILL, Thursday. ' Alt Gore to-day Cruiekshank, S.M., gave judgment , the case of Police v. Whittingham, a brewer, at Gore, in the Mata-ura no-license district. The case was a test one to decide whether the defendant could execute orders for beer for delivery outside of the electorate. The Crown. Prosecutor, Mr. T. M. Macdonald, had contended that delivery to the railway, or a common, carrier, at Gore, was delivery within the meaning of the Act.
The Magistrate differed, holding that Wlrittinghani had control over the liquor till taken possession, of by the person to whom it was consigned outside of the no-license district. Security, for appeal was fixed at £20.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXV, Issue 228, 23 September 1904, Page 3
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