SUPPLY OP LIQUOR

Hokitika Guardian, 21 March 1940, Page 6

SUPPLY OP LIQUOR

PROSECUTIONS AT OAMARU

(Per . Press Association— Copyright). ' OAMARU,-March 20. The first conviction under the ne\v regulations governing the supply of lkittoh .to soldiers Aafi recorded by Mr H. Wv: Bundle, S.M., at Oainaru Magistrate’s Court to-day, when a barihftu, Joseph Albert was filled’,4o. shillings for selling; liquor at Georgetown to two soldiers in uniform for consumption elsewhere than oil the premises where it r as sold. i A licensing charge, the first of its pature jri New Zealand, was preferred against Rudolph Stanley Draper for delivering liquor qt Georgetown to .Albert Smart, having reasonable grounds to suspect that the liquor was to be kept for sale in a no license 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 lie knew Smart had been convicted o! keeping liquor for sale, and had been yvafned against supplying liquor to convicted slygrog sellers. Counsel had 'argued that there was no evidence oi delivery to Smart, but lie 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 ? substantial quantity of liquor for improper purposes. He could not overlook . the fact that defendant could have Jbqen’ charged with aiding and abetting'; Defendant was fined £l(). • : ••• ‘ Security, for appeal was fixed at six guineas. Senior Sergeant T. I. McGregor prosecuted for the police in, both cases.