CLUB FINED. £10

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 7, 9 July 1945, Page 7

CLUB FINED. £10

P.A. ASHBURTON, July 7. In a reserved judgment, Mr. G. G. Chisholm, S.M., convicted the County Club, Incorporated, of having kept intoxicating liquor for sale without being authorised to do so. A fine of £10 was imposed. After hearing submissions by counsel, the Magistrate reserved his decision regarding confiscation^ of liquor seized by the police and valued at between £170 and £180. Security for appeal was fixed at 15 guineas. In his decision the Magistrate rejected a suggestion by Mr. C. S. Thomas at the hearing that because the charge was laid under the emergency regulations and not the Licensing Act, the Court would not be in- i fluenced in interpreting the regulations by other provisions of the Act indicating the intentions of the Legislature to the same extent as if the charge were laid under the Act. The Magistrate said he had no doubt that the purpose of the regulations was to extend, not modify, 'the conditions provided by the Act, which provided that certain practices by unchartered clubs for supplying liquor to members which might not in law constitute a sale were "alleged evasions of the law relating to the illicit sale of liquor." Following the police application for confiscation, counsel said the liquor if released would be returned to the vendors.