BREACH OF LICENSING LAWS.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 30 June 1938, Page 8

BREACH OF LICENSING LAWS.

MAGIS'iTtATB THae ATiiL b IMPEIbOKmEiFr . (By Telegraph—Tress Association^1A \ r/jk.Aiid li.L, -Lmal XxlgijL. A wiiniuig umi second oiicudeio against the licensing Jaws would be liable to three mouths’ imprisonment instead of a hue, was issued by the Magistrate (Mr. it. C. Abernelliy; when imposing a hue of C2U and costs on Leslie Donald William Mansou in the Magistrate's Court to-day. Mauson, who pleaded guilty to selling intoxicating liquor in Invercargill Just batnrday, to exposing liquor tor sale and to obtaining liquor to be delivered to u no license area without notifying that he was resident ol such a district, was lined on the charge of selling liquor and was convicted and discharged on the other counts. He was allowed u mouth in wdiich to pay.

Defendant was the lessee of a number of rooms known as Everybody's Buildings, stated beuior-bergeant Kelly. When the police visited the place last batnrday they had found 17 full bottles of beer in the kitchen in a room off which w r ere six men each with a glass of beer at one table. At another table were two men with two bottles and to full glasses. Defendant frankly admitted that the men had come for beer, that he had sold it to them and had been selling liquor for some time. Fourteen more bottles of beer, making a total of 31, w r cre found downstairs.

A fiiend of defendant had, according ■to defendant’s statement to the po!i-e, brought liquor in from the country, but had not notified the authorities ihat it was intended for a no license area.