POLICE COMMISSION.
[Per Press Association.] OAMARU, April 16. The Police Commission terminated its sittings to-day. The Waimate Sunday trading matter came up again. A number of those mentioned by Mr Dash denied that they had gone to the hotel for liquor, or had been supplied with it. Constable Parker, the officer in charge of the station, proved that he had laid twelve informations in the year for breaches of the Licensing Act, and obtained nine convictions. He had. hired vehicles from publicans who kept livery stables, and the Department paid for them. His cow had grazed in a publican’s paddock, but he paid for the grazing, and it was there with the cows of others, who also paid. The sergeant of police at Oamaru denied that he hqd been under the influence of liquor at the times mentioned by witnesses, and called a number of. witnesses as to his character and sobriety.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume XCIX, Issue 11555, 16 April 1898, Page 5
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