HEAVY FINES
SUPPLYING LIQUOR TO NATIVES By Telegraph.--Pkfss Association Hawera, August 20. The serious natutv of the offence of supplying liquor to Natives for consumption off licensed premises was eni phasised to-day in the Magistrate’s Court by Mr.' Barton, S.M., when he unposed heavy fines on men accused of that offence. He added that in the next cases of the sort in this district he would impose the maximum penalty Joseph Dombroski and Kaaki Wallace were charged with the above-mentioned offence, and Gordon Chisnail was charged with aiding and abetting Dom broski. The police stated that Wallace arranged with Chisnail to supply bee>, which was ordered by the latter, but found no container available in which to take the liquor away. Later Dombroski called with a cream can and took away five gallons of liquor to a Native’s residence, where eight Maoris ■were waiting for it. Dombroski was fined £2O, Wallace and Chisnall £l5 each.
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Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 271, 21 August 1925, Page 8
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