DELIVERY OF BEER.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 173, 24 July 1928, Page 3

DELIVERY OF BEER.

LICENSEE PROSECUTED. CONSTABLE SEIZES A KEG. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) PAPAKUKA, Monday. The question whether a teg of beer which Daniel Weir, jun., of Papakura, was seen carrying about 11 p.m. on April 28, came from the Papakura Hotel or from a ditch outside the hotel, occupied the attention of Mr. F. N. Levien, S.M., to-day. Robert Pethvbridge, licensee of the hotel, was charged with having sold liquor after hours, and Weir with having been found on licensed premises after hotirs. Constable Holland said he saw Weir come out of the backyard of the hotel with a three-gallon keg of beer. He accosted Weir, and impounded the liquor. Evidence for the defence was that the keg was ordered and paid for at about 1.30 o'clock or 2 o'clock in the afternoon, and it was arranged that the licensee should leave it just outside the yard gate in blackberries in a ditch, as the purchaser was going to football in the afternoon, with others of a party, and would not be returning until after the hotel closing hour. The licensee said he accordingly left the keg in the ditch, before closing time. The defendant Weir said that on finishing supper at the fish shop, about 11 p.m.. members of the party asked him to secure the keg. He did so, finding it in the ditch outside the hotel gate. The magistrate inspected the localitv and reserved decision.