ILLEGAL SALES OF LIQUOR

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 26986, 11 March 1953, Page 5

ILLEGAL SALES OF LIQUOR

£7OO IMPOSED IN FINES

magistrate condemns AGENTS’ ACTIVITIES (New Zealand Press Association)

m . AUCKLAND. March 10. nines and costs amounting to nearly + w S: e , lm P° sed on 10 offenders against the licensing laws by Mr W. S.M.. in the Magistrate’s ourt at Putaruru. The heaviest penalty was imposed on R. V. Andrews, manager of Tansey and Company, who SS P § n ? d £3O 2' Confiscation of liquor seized was ordered. A<Aa?r ewS T Pleaded r ° a charge of selling liquor without a licence. <?nS° Co i te A’ ho Prosecuted, saia that although Andrews had been warned on three occasions, a special fJi t ™ S 'n Constable had ma de purchases rro^ l Tansey and Company. nb?;A nders ??’ a retire farmer, was tllre e, counts with selling luntv ’SS? 0 ' 2 ! ? He P le aded hSi C l ai ?? that a constable f ers . ua(^ eci him to sell the liquor and break the law. count derS ° n WaS fined £s ° on each

A. Darr, a dealer, pleaded guilty r.?,t one i- charge of selling liquor withw I l£ en 9 e - “d «s fined £5O. , -the Magistrate said it appeared to = generally . toown by the breweries that a considerable quantity of the liquor sold to agents and sub-agents was wanted for sly grog selling, C ? U ?i? bou § ht at almost S?y *l of the day or night through toe agents of the wholesalers, said the t?nSli rat w T hes e agents were conhreaking the law, and fines noE hmg to those in big busi-

_ ’^™? lagistrat f t™? 4 R - J - Sturgeon, a ? am P s - r S e = n t, £lOO on charges of selling liquor without a licence, and ?, a 2' lng r- hq A UO L f 2, r sale in a no-licence T ri. A. McConachie, J. A. Wilson, ik.-i c Vl 5' „ Jan Heyster, Hugh White, ana t>; Kelly, all labourers, were each IU ilt t» * on sirhilar charges M. L. Morgan, counsel for these defendants, said the time had come when something should be done about brewery agents in Mangakino. There were nearly 4500 residents. A works canteen should be established where they could get a drink. The Magistrate said he agreed that the problem of brewery agents should be tackled by legislation. Hotels throughout the country had to be kept to a fairly high standard to retain their licences. They had to carry fandi- heavy stocks and maintain big staffs, and then had their business niched by agents. Agents might be good for wholesalers and brewers, but they were not in the interests of the hotels, said the Magistrate.