DEFENCE FAILS
LIQUOR FORFEITED AMBIGUITY ALLEGED (0.C.) GISBORNE, this day. An order that liquor found on the premises of Mrs. Thelma Eliza Rawstrom. at Waima. Tokomaru Bay. during a recent police raid, be forfeited and disposed of as directed by the Inspector of Police at Gisborne was made in the Magistrate's Court by Mr. E. L. Walton, S.M., after legal argument by counsel for defendant on the scope of the word "penalty." On April 23 Mrs. Rawstrom was convicted and fined £10 and costs 10/ on a charge of being privy to the sale of liciuor without a license. Counsel submitted that there was an ambiguity in the section under which his client was charged, and that the word "penalty" concerned pecuniary punishment and did cover the forfeiture of the goods. The magistrate ruled that the use of the word in section 196 was wide enough to include its use in section 229, and made an order.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 121, 24 May 1941, Page 10
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