INVERCARGILL UNDER NO-LICENSE.
Salutary punishment. INVER CARGILL. July 21. George Bull, Erl ward Mahoney, and John Hanna were convicted of keeping beer for sale and 1 tru'd £SO each, iu default one month’s imprisonment. The defence was that the liquor, amounting to forty-five gallons in. eleven days, was ordered for tbeir own consumption. The Magistrate said that, according to the statement of the accused. three meu in twenty-four hours consumed ten gallons of beer. There had been concealment, and the story was so wild and improbable that he had not the slightest hesitation in rejecting it. Ho announced that he would show no leniency U persons setting the law at defiance.
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Evening Star, Issue 12871, 21 July 1906, Page 8
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111INVERCARGILL UNDER NO-LICENSE. Evening Star, Issue 12871, 21 July 1906, Page 8
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