COURT NEWS

Grey River Argus, 21 March 1934, Page 2

COURT NEWS

Sly Grog at Nelson OLD MAN FINED £24. (Per Press Association.) NELSON. .March 2". Dex-ribed by the police us a menace lu the young' life of the city., William Aslilun Roughton, aged 72. was convicted for sidling liquor without a The police secured a large quantity of liquor and paraphernalia on the defendant’s premises, the job of shitting takiug five trips of a three-ton lorry. There were three loads full of stuff. The total quantity of liquor was 920 gallons. Defendant said that some of the liquor seized was 50 years old. It had been aecumiilaling for many years. The Magistrate was disinclined to accept the defendant’s statement lhat he gave the liquor away Io strangers. The police stated that defendant had been selling liquor to young people l for'several years, and was a menace. The Magistrate took into consideration the loss sustained by the forfeiture of the liquor and de I end:i n t ’s poor ciruumstanuus. Except for that, he said, it was difficult to see why he should not impose the maximum penalty. It was clear that defendant had been committing a systematically flagrant breach of the Licensing Act, making liquor on .a large scale, retailing it to anyone who came along, and making a nuisance of himself. lie would b<‘ fined £2O on the first of five charges, and fl each on the remainder. CABARET OWNER FINED. LIQI’OR |\ NO LICENSE AREA. WELLINGTON. March 20. Penalties amounting to £23 were imposed <»n Stanley Dowdall List, of Crow’s Nesi Cabaret, Island Buy, in a reserved judgment, to-day, on charges of sidling and keeping liquor for sale, in a no licen.'e area. Lisi was also convicted lor keeping the cabaret open on‘Sunday, to transuut business. but as In 1 thought a genuine question <>f law was involved. Magistrate Page made an order for the payment of costs only. Mr Page .-aid he thought the owner of a cabaret in a no-license area, whose servant supplied liquor to a customer, was liable for such act, if it was within the general scope of the servant ’s employment. PAUPER'S DAMAGES APPEAL. COL'RI' REI'I SES LEAVE. WELLINGTON, March 20. Application was made to the Court of Appeal this morning by Richard Park, of Wellington, salesman, for leave I<> appeal as a pauper from the judgment of Justice Blair, delivered in Wellington in September lust. Applicant, in a statement of claim, stated that while crossing Marine Parade, Napier, he was struck and injured by a. car driven by Joseph L. G. Richards, of Wellington, engineer, and he claimed £390 special damages, amt £9OO general damages. The jury, while holding both parties negligent, held, that defendant, Richards, was the effective cause of the accident. Damages were assessed at £BB4. Justice Blair gave judgment in favour of Richards, on the ground that there was no evidence upon which the jury could hold one party more negligent than the other. Plaintiff applied for leave to appeal from this decision. Preliminary argument was heard upon the question as to whether the appeal had been brought within the requisite, time. After considering the , case, the Court held unanimously that the appeal should not be allowed to proceed. Giving judgment, the Chief Justice stated that any applicant who came to court after the time allowed for the appeal had expired, was asking for indulgence, and he must show good grounds for his delay. Such, grounds had not been proved, and the application would, therefore, have to be dismissed. DIVORCE FOR N.Z. WOMAN. LONDON, March 19. The New Zealander, Lady Constance Moon, has been granted a divorce from her husband, Sir Arthur Moon, on the grounds of misconduct.