COURTS AND OFFENCES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 26 July 1928, Page 10

COURTS AND OFFENCES.

ETtiANDY IN BOTTLE WITH WRONG

LABEL

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) INVERCARGILL, J uly 25. William Latham Hogs, licensee ot'-the Golden Age .Hotel, Bluff, was fined £2O in the -Police Court to-day for selling brandy from a bottle with a wrong label.

It was .stated for the defence that the bottle was-merely there for filling the decanters with draught brandy, and oouitsbL .submitted that it was only a iDchnical offence. Defendant admitted it quite freely.

The magistrate said it all depended on what was meant by the term “bottling.” To pour liquor into a bottle was “bottling,” and in bis opinion the offence was proved. ILLEG AL POSSESSION 0!-' OPOSSUM. SKINS. INVERCARGILL, July 25. The question of disposing of opossum skins by .poachers arose at a sitting of the Police Cburt this morning before. Mir G. Cniialvshank, S.M., when Francis Thomas Vernon Kingsland, a licensed broker. was oba.rged that lie failed, on. receiving 177 opossum skins from Thomas Jackson Smith., to make entiiies in the register kept lor that purpose of the correct name, address and occupation of the person from whom the skins were obtained. He was also charged, with being illegally in passession of opossum skims on March 27, 1923, about the isame time concerning \v ll idi the first charge was laid. Defendant was fined 620 on the charge of being illegally in possession of opossum ivkins, and £lO on tbo chiairge of failing to make ffne entries in the register.

FOUND IN GIRL’S BEDROOM

BLENHEIM, July 25. Arrested in- W.eMinlgtoin on Friday on; in, ehaingei of having been- found in n girl’Ls bedroom ait Rcrniwiickbown, meair Blienbeim, ait 4.30 a.on. on Thursfdiay Jnlsf, and with halving assaulted the parents of the girl when ishe called them in, Rex Brydon, aged 25 yoalrts, pleaded guilty this morning lait the Bilenihoinn. Court. He urged dirrunikonnesls as ain cxitentinitinig ciroumstaimce.' He stated that, he hlald nlo evil intent; he merely mfored the room /through the Window to have a .talk. When her 1 parentis lalrrived be nvaturaflily ■ attempted to escape, ainid a. scuffle icnisuod. The MngistTaltc. aiecepted the explanation, and, on 1 nic'cwsodl pfroniislimg to take out a. prohibition order, ordered' him to 'come, up for isomtcmcc wiitlhim six months. 0;n the major charge ho fined him £5 for assault and ordered him to pay the costs of blue prosiecution, £3 14s,