NEW LICENSING ACT.
THE FIRST- CASE. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) Waihi, December 13. The first case in the Dominion -under the new Licensing Act v/as heard in the Magistrate's Court to-day, when .H. Deverell, coach proprietor, was charged with storing liquor, under section 38 of the Act. The evidence showed that n caso of liquor consigned to a local resident, care of defendant's partner, was conveyed from the railway station to defendant's stables, and stored there for half an hour when the police entered and seized the liquor. The police contended that this was a breach of the Act as no exception was made to carriers. In giving his decision the Magistrate (Mr. Burgess) said, in his opinion, the law did not intend that temporary detention of liquor, ill the hands of a carrier constituted storing. The case was dismissed. In another case against a private resident, in : which the latter pleaded guilty to storing under the same Act, defendant was fined 10s. and costs.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 999, 14 December 1910, Page 4
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164NEW LICENSING ACT. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 999, 14 December 1910, Page 4
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