NO-LICENSE AREA.
COMMENT BY MAGISTRATE
Per Press Association. INVERCARGILL, Sept. 26. For keeping liquor for sale in a no-license area, Robert Ross was fined £lO to-day. The police said that men had been scon coming out of Ross’s place with bags of liquor. A search of the premises was made and 67 bottles of beer were found in a bedroom and 60 empty bottles in the washhouse. Ross was living apart from his wife, and was unemployed. “The position in Invercargill is somewhat peculiar,” commented the Magistrate (Mr Freeman). “The people voted prohibition 30 years ago, but there does not appear to be any prohibition. If you want to get a glass of beer, instead of going to an hotel you have got to go to a brewery and get two gallons. That’s not prohibition ; its purely no-license, which is not no-license at all, but it’s the law. It opens the way to this class of offence.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 256, 26 September 1935, Page 8
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157NO-LICENSE AREA. Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 256, 26 September 1935, Page 8
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