"PLENTY OF BEER COUNTRY"

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 13063, 4 February 1943, Page 4

"PLENTY OF BEER COUNTRY"

TO COU^; T ° Maori Y Purchaser and fe; Fined- f T "There's plenty of , country but I don - t^: any reason why been different bottles" ' TYI Walton, S.M., i n tj Court yesterday. * answering submissi -• Holland that Us client ■* Johnston, was entitledV-' of doubt about the - A in a charge of s „p plyi '•; Maori for consumption * premises on December 12" - A not guilty was entered sides changed to one of magistrate held against i lt ; in t lr submissions. Three hotik ' ! were produced in Court Toku Billy Kiwi Rameka '[,, Gl™' 1 said he was drinking in ah > Johnston before- 6 o'clock Ann'i him 5s 6d to-, get three h MM* 01 beer, which I him wrapped in brown jaJJ" port back of the hotel. . ' TJ.S. Constable G. Urquhart s a W he and Constable Lotk wen 1 Rameka behind the hotel a lowed Rameka into Wtj,|': anotl where he stopped him andti;" J had three bottles of beer i<' eana side coat pocket. ; ach Constable F. C. Lockie J a borative evidence. Later bjcast w viewed Johnston at the portion and took a statement frora!;-'Unite< in which Johnston said k : The three bottles of beef and tt;:*S ; Q home. One bottle was f-locate brand and he could not re ; of Ro? brands of the others. R row Mr Holland submitted tFormi evidence did not show thatl:sfaitet supplied liquor to a Maori tbeit ( sumption off licensed preiri; Tin that the bottles found on ?iiit oi were the bottles bought by Mexplo; The Magistrate: There'st'imrni beer in the country hut I kßettin pose that is any reason wbShip s should have been different 1" Tw After some further arguiJunk magistrate said he must hole;sips the submissions. ? e<^°" Mr Holland then chaaK«* d ( plea to guilty. n - ° Johnston was fined £1 to pay costs, time to pay N m allowed. Vol ' c Billy Kiwi Rameka, of Fi;> lane (Mr H. O. Cooney) aiding and abetting the so;;, j liquor to himself, a Maori, fe'j sumption off licensed preafrj December 12. Th Sergeant Saunders said %tesl was a respectable hard-ww% with a family. T Rameka was fined £2an4o^p ref to pay costs, time to pay lowed. _ *n or , ' M ■'-»