LIQUOR AND NO-LICENSE.

Mataura Ensign, 2 November 1911, Page 5

LIQUOR AND NO-LICENSE.

WHAT THE POLK K SAW. At the Gore Magistrate's Court tL/v morning, he'ore .Mr H. A. Young, S.M., Francis Thorn appeared i,i iipuvr t}.* charge."!' t';' p"hVe vith, fi.\ t. hringir<K Honor i-iio th-» no-I'.iiiM <!istrict <•!' Mrnauia. a" I ', .ycon-lly. uiiii tailing tr. notify lln \i'»ri<ir of I:K !;.:j)ic and address and (hat the liquor was to 1* brought into a no-licemv d^.trict. Mr Henderson appeared lor Thorn and pleaded guilty to Imtji <hargt*. Thorn was no*, aware that lie was breaking the law. Sergeant Burrowo said there vkt< six bottles of beer and on- bottle «■< whisky in a basr, a'el the* attention <A the police was drawn to the fact by some of the bottles of beer being broken ami the beer flowing out of tJx> |Gladstone bag when it was taken out of the train. He did n>it suggest that the liquor was for sale. The court inflicted a biu- </',' 10s arid costs "s on the fir '. charge and tb*» M'cond charge was withdrawn.