LIQUOR IN NELSON.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 103, 3 May 1930, Page 17

LIQUOR IN NELSON.

NOT BREW2ES' BENEFITS. SELLING TO RELIEF CAMPS. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) NELSON, Friday. Several charges of illegally selling liquor were heard before Sir. T. E. Ma.uncell. SAL, in the Nelson Magistrate's Court to-day. W. Barakat pleaded guilty to two charges. The police stated that a constable had purchased wine in small quantities from defendant at a time when several men and women were on the premises being served. Defendant was fined £10 on the first charge and £2 on the second. W. Lawson, brewer, of Wakefield, was charged with selling beer, the delivery of which was not made from a brewery, depot or bottling ,store. In imposing tne maximum penalty of £-50 the magistrate said he was satisfied that defendant was carting liquor to a relief camp, touting for orders and selling wholesale and indiscriminately. "These relief camps are certainly not brewers benefit institutions," said the magistrate, "and I am going to take a very serious view of the case. Harold Inwood, of Gowan Bridge, on two charges of selling liquor without a license, was fined' £10 and costs on each charge.