LIQUOR LAW BROKEN.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 143, 18 June 1926, Page 12

LIQUOR LAW BROKEN.

BEER IN NO-LICENSE AREA.

TROUBLE IN A CAMP

(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.)

RAETIHI, this day.

At the Haetihi Police Court, the police charged L. Shepperd with taking nquor not properly labelled into a noiicensc district., also with failing to notify that liquor was to be taken into a no-license area, and further with Keeping liquor for sale.

The police stated that defendant was a taxi driver. Complaints had been received about the quantity of beer being taken into a contractor's camp at Kakatahi. The police went out and seized a keg of beer that had been delivered there that day.

F. Pepper, contractor, said he was engaged in a metalling contract and haa eleven men engaged on dangerous quarry work. He had had trouble through his men getting under the influence of drink and he was afraid of an accident happening. He saw defendant leave the keg of beer and complained. He also told him that the beer was not labelled. Defendant promised to take the beer back on his return journey. Witness had trouble in the camp that day through the beer.

L. Shepperd, taxi driver, said he did not know the camp was in a no-license area. He did not sell the beer. He accepted money to pay for the beer ann the freight. He told Pepper he would take the beer back next day. The Court imposed a fine of £10 for taking beer into a no-license area, the same not bein<r labelled. For failing to •lotify, a conviction was entered and defendant was ordered to pay costs, £6 6/f). The chnrTc of keeping liquor for sale was dismissed.