SECOND EDITION. LIQUOR IN NO-LICENSE DISTRICT.
DEALERS' RESPONSIBILITIES. .HEAVY FINES INFLICTED. . (VMM PEIBB AfiSOOTATIOK.) DUNED.IN, Nov. PL At the Police Court this morning 'Briggs Bros., trading as J. R. Briggs, were charged with failing to file certain orders for liquor sent into a no-license district, and to produce same when requested by tho police. It was stated by the police that the defendants produced orders at the, first request. One of these orders was declared by llie police to be, a forgery. The defendants refjised to give up possession of or to allow a tracing to be made,-of tho alleged forged order. Defendants counsel put in two orders which ho said were those shown to the police, but both constables swore thai on.? was not one. of, those previously shown. Mr Young, S.M., said lie thought the order, which the defendants in this ease had refused to produce, had probably been destroyed with the intention to -.title the prosecution. Be-, fondants would be lined the maximum penalty of JJM. .
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 1012, 14 November 1917, Page 5
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169SECOND EDITION. LIQUOR IN NO-LICENSE DISTRICT. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 1012, 14 November 1917, Page 5
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