HIS FIRST DREW.
ASHBURTON MAN FINED £5O
Timaru, Muy 7.
At the Magistrate’s Court at Geraldine to-day Bernard Kennedy, farm labourer, was charged with selling beer without a license at Mayficld, within the Ashburton no-liccnso district.
The police gave evidence of complaints about young men being made drunk at the accused’s place and the finding there of two men under the influence of liquor, one eighteen-gal-lon keg tapped .another untapped, and two empty ten-gallon kegs. The defendant stated that he made the plant and brewed the beer himself on the premises, filling the four kegs. He denied having sold any. This was his first brew at Alayfield. A Government analyst reported that a sample of the beer contained 5.6 per cent, of spirit. The magistrate convicted the accused and fined him £5O.
The accused was given a fortnight to raise the monev.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume II, Issue 122, 8 May 1912, Page 5
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142HIS FIRST DREW. Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume II, Issue 122, 8 May 1912, Page 5
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