SALE OF LIQUOR.
WITHOUT A LICENSE,
FIXED AT TWENTY POUNDS.
Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, June 25. Thomas Atkinson, a carrier, was charged in the Magistrate’s Court with selling liquor without a license. A constable said that he visited the place on May 23 in plain clothes and was supplied with three bottles of beer at 2s Gd each. On June 6 he again bought a bottle. On ono occasion he was accompanied by a friend. The 'defence denied that liquor way sold to the constable and said the amount found in the house, twelve and a-half bottles, did not indicate trade. Defendant admitted a previous conviction. The magistrate accepted the constable’s story and fined accused £2O on the first charge.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 175, 25 June 1926, Page 8
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120SALE OF LIQUOR. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 175, 25 June 1926, Page 8
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