SALE OF LIQUOR

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 152, 30 June 1938, Page 22

SALE OF LIQUOR

MAGISTRATE'S WARNING

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) INVERCARGILL, June 20,

A warning that second offenders against licensing laws would be liable to three months' imprisonment instead oi' a fine was given by the Magistrate, Mr. R. C. Abernethy, when imposing a fine of £20 and costs on Leslie Donald William Manson in the Magistrate's Court today. Manson, who pleaded guilty to selling intoxicating liquor in Invercargill last Saturday, to exposing liquor for sale, and to obtaining liquor to be delivered to a - nolicence area without notifying that he was a resident of such district, was fined on the charge of selling liquor and was convicted and discharged on the other counts. He was allowed a month in which to pay.

, The defendant was lessee of a num-. ber*of rooms known as Everybody's Buildings, stated Senior-Sergeant Kelly. When police visited the place last Saturday they found 17 full bottles of beer in the kitchen, in a room off which were six men, each with a glass of beer, at one table. At another table were two men, two bottles, and two full glasses. The defendant frankly admitted that the men had come for beer and that he had sold it to them, and had been selling liquor for softie time. Fourteen more bottles of beer, making a total of 31, were found downstairs. A friend of the defendant had, according to the defendant's statement to the police, brought the liquor in from the country, but had not notified the authorities that.it was intended for a no-licehce area.