LIQUOR IN KING COUNTRY.
GARAGE PROPRIETOR ACQUITTED. (PRBB9 ASSOCIATION TELEQBAY.) HAMILTON, November 28. Joseph Machin, garage proprietor, of Taumarunui, in whose yard the police discovered a case of whisky on August 11th, was acquitted by the jury in the Bupreme Court to-day, on a charge of keeping liquor for sale in contravention of the Prohibition law applying to the King Country. Machin, in the witness box, admitted two previous convictions, but denied any knowledge of the whisky in his yard. The whisky was hidden under a heap of gubbish.
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Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19480, 29 November 1928, Page 6
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