"MOLEUVA PORT WINE."
IN A MAORI DISTRICT (By Telegraph —Press Association) Auckland, July 17 At To Kuiti on Thursday A A Lissamann was charged with selling hljuor containing 3103 per conf proof spirit, known as Molouva port wine A constable purchased a bottlo for foui shillings Tho contents were analysed by the public analyst, and upon his roport tho cliaigo was laid Tho wino was alleged to bo ten times stronger than ordinary alo, and half tho maximum strength of "brandy Defendant hid' sold twelve cases in a vorj short time < • i The magistnte found tho defendant guilty of a bieach of Section 273 of tho Act, but, in view of the circumstances;of tho case and , defendant's -bona fidesy and-tho.anomaly in the law in respect of sale of medicinal wino in Maori districts,, he dismissed tho chargq, on thOjdcfondant paying £8 2s Od costs It wis suggested that the anomaly in Section 273 ns affecting Maori districts shquld he brought, tp Wi9..notio4tdf 'the Attorney, General. ,< J
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 563, 19 July 1909, Page 4
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