LIQUOR IN KING COUNTRY.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 631, 31 December 1913, Page 5

LIQUOR IN KING COUNTRY.

i IMPORTANT JUDGMENT. SOLICITING ORDERS. J Hamilton, This Day. i An important jndo.nu nf affecting | advertising liquor it? ne-liernsu areas j was given hy Mr Dawson, S.M., at ! Hamilton in a cure ho-,;d at To Kuiti : recently, in whirl: I'erm.::' lux. nro- ; prietor of Iho Oommerci!>.l Hotel, Te Awnmu!:;. war obarprd with a broach I of section::7;' of Uv !,ierm~-ir;; Act hy I soliciting orders for lamer at To ! Kuiti. an area proclaimed omhiliitori |hy (iio Govruina'id. Th-" snlieiling | consisted of exhibiting a h.-.aid on the | railway station containing <h<' following advertisement: -''laix for liquor. All Lux's parcel catch the train Never known to miss. Wire or write. —Herman Lux. Genimorcial Hotel, Te Awainutu. - ' Mr Finaly, for the defence, contended that to aonstitnte soliciting there .must ho an, net of personal appeal. Secondly. that the proclamation was ultra vires as the railway station was not native land. The magistrate held that personal appeal was not necessary and with regard to the second argument pointed out that the King Country Licensing Act of 1909 extended the proclamation to cover areas which were not native land. As the proceedings were merely brought hy way of a test case hip Worship recorded a conviction and imposed a nominal fine of Is and costs.