LIQUOR PROSECUTIONS

Grey River Argus, 21 March 1940, Page 6

LIQUOR PROSECUTIONS

SUPPLYING SOLDIERS And No-License Area Resident OAMARU, March 20. The first conviction under the new regulations governing the supply of liquor to soldiers was recorded by Mr H W Bundle, S.M. at Oamaru Magistrate’s Court to-day, when a barman, Joseph Albert Docherty, was fined forty shillings for selling liquor at Georgetown to two soldiers m uniform for consumption elsewhere than on the premises where it was sola. A licensing charge, the first of its nature in New Zealand, was preferred against Rudolph Stanley Draper for delivering liquor at Georgetown to Albert Smart, having reasonable grounds to suspect that the liquor was to be kept for sale in a no licence district by Albert Smart. The Magistrate stated that the police executed a search warrant at Smart’s premises, found liquor there, and then went to the Georgetown Hotel, when the defendant, Draper, acknowledged he had sold and supplied liquor. Defendant also admitted that he knew Smart had been convicted of keeping liquor for sale, and had been warned against supplying liquor to’ convicted slygrog sellers Counsel had argued that there was no evidence of delivery to Smart, but he was unable to take this view. There was clearly duty cast on the licensee not to deliver liquor to a man whom he had reasonable grounds to suspect of using a substantial quantity of liquor for improper purposes. He could not overlook the fact that defendant could have been charged with aiding and abetting. De fendant was fined ten pounds. I Security for appeal was fixed at six guineas. Senior Sergeant T. I. McGregor prosecuted for the police in both cases.

BISHOP GERARD. WELLINGTON, March 19. Instead of leaving with the 3rd Echelon, as originally arranged, tffi Rt. Rev. G. V. Gerard, senior chapmm to' the New Zealand. Expeditionary Force, will now leave with ih? 2na Echelon. The Bishop has been able to make arrangements in his tiiocesthat will allow him to go overseas, earlier than was at first expec.ed. In the last war ths episcopal | churches of New Zealand were repi j sented at the front by bishops x comparative brief periods on y, Dr. H. W. Cleary, Roman Cat no re. 'piqhon of AucklDiid, and Di. • * < SX ° Anglican Bishop ol Nelson. I paid visits of some weeks to the = in France. While there, u sh;p et < received a minor shrapne 1 wound th_ effects of which he Hit foi the mainder of his life. The bishops’ visits did not effect administration of chapla ns w . with the Expeditionary Force Thwas organised on a bas.s of s - - and of co-operation between the d f_ ferent religious bodes m Ue allot ment of duty. Arrangements ffinresent war are not exactly but the principle of co-operation w remain. Bishop Gerard is qudhrxl bv experience for the post of semo. ehapffin, having served ant officer of an Imperial i.g.me t the last war. He holds the MmLqy Cross During the Bishop’s absence the diocese of Waiapu will be adai. Xed b v the of Napier tm Very Rev. J. B. Brocklehuist as the end of this has conduct confirmations m thu later in the year.