ILLICIT LIQUOR

Northern Advocate, 21 March 1934, Page 5

ILLICIT LIQUOR

POLICE SEIZE 920 GALLONS ELDERLY MAN PINED A MENACE TO YOUNG PEOPLE (Per Press Association.—Copyright.) NELSON, This Day. Described by the police as a menace to the young life of the city, William Ashton Roughton, aged 72, AA r as conA’icted today for selling, liquor without a license. The police secured a quantity of liquor and paraphernalia on defendant’s premises, the job of moving it taking five trips of a three-ton lorry. The total quantity of liquor was 920 gallons. Defendant said that some of the liquor seized had been accumulating for many years. The magistrate was disinclined to accept a statement by the defendant that he gave the liquor aAvay to strangers. The police stated that the defendant had been selling liquor to young people for soA’cral years and aa’ as a menace. The magistrate took Into consideration the loss sustained in the forfeit of the liquor and defendant’s poor circumstances. Except for that, it Avas difficult to see Avhy he should not impose the maximum penalty. It Avas clear that defendant had been committing systematic and flagrant disregard for the Licensing Act. making liquor on a large scale, retailing it to anyone who came along, and making a nuisance of himself. Defendant AS’as lined £2O on the first of five charges and £2O on the remainder. SALES IN CABARET OWNER DEALT WITH (Per Press Association.—Copvrighl.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Penalties amounting to £2n were imposed on Stanley Dowdall List, of the (JroAv’s Nest Cabaret, Island Bay, by Mr E. Page, S.M., in a reserved. Judgment yesterday on a charge of selling and keeping liquor for sale in a no-licensed area. List Avas also convicted for keeping the cabaret open on Sunday to transact business, but as the magistrate thought a genuine question of la \a t Avas involved, he made an order for payment of costs only. Mr Page said he thought the owner of a cabaret in a no-licensed area Avhose servants sold liquor to a customer Avas liable to such Act, if it Avas within the general scope of the servants’ employment.