A SALE OF BEER.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 71, 24 March 1910, Page 5

A SALE OF BEER.

NO-LICENSE PROSECUTIONS. (By Telegraph.—Pxess Asociation.) WELLINGTON, Wednesday. Three prosecutions bearing on the conveyance of liquor into a no-license dis-1 triet were brought by the police in the Magistrate's Court to-day, before Mr. W. (J. Riddell, fcj-M., against George Green, a fisherman, x>l Island Bay, and Joseph Henry Chancy, employed a.fc Maea rthy's brewery. TJIO former - was charged that he did not notify IJianey, to wnom the order was given, that the liquor was Intended to be takeu into a no-license district, and did not give him his name and address. The charges against Chancy were that (1) he delivered a package containing two gallons of beer to be taken into a no-license district, not having written or printed outside that it contained liquor, and (2) that he sold two gallons of beer, and failed to send the clerk or the Magistrate's Court, Wellington, a statement in writing of the nature and quantity of liquor so taken, and the name and address of the person ordering lit or the person by whom taken. Both., I defendants pleaded not guilty. Mr. Jackson appeared for Chancy, and Mr. Fitzgibbon ior "Green. Evidence -was given by George Green, who said that while driving through Kilbirnie to his home at Palmer's Point, Island Bay, he was stopped by Constable Taylor, who seized two gallons of beer he I had in his cart. Witness stated that he had purchased it from Chancy, whom he had known for years. He did not give the latter his name and address. Chancy admitted that some years ago he knew that the Greens lived at Island-Bay, but he denied that he knew that Green was taking- the beer into a no-license area. Mr. Kiddell dismissed the information against Green, of whose address he held Chancy must have been cognisant, j Chancy was convicted on information, the offences being committed together, one fine of £3, with costs, 9/,! was imposed, the penalty for default being fixed at seven days' imprisonment.