LICENSING ACT PROS TIONS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIII, 18 December 1909, Page 1

LICENSING ACT PROS TIONS.

AIJCKLA^; Friday. Mr Cutten, S.M., t6 T day fined William .* Winn, grocer, £5 Is, for selling Stearns', wina without a lioensw The .wine wai ' advertised as. having tonic . properties, • but the magistrate found as fact that this wine, was- -a beverage. ■MASTERTON, Friday. William Burridge.- brewer, of Masterton, was charged at the Magistrate's Court this morning- with . selling liquor within a, no-licease area. The charge was made on the ground that though the li» ' qour was sent from. Carterton, outside , the No-licetue area, it had been ordered » .'■' and paid for on delivery in Masterton, hte driver- having .received instructiwsst not to deliver without payment. Counsel, for the defense, contended tha^th£ , li- • quor w£G allotted -to 'each person bv^3re it was Mnt from Carterton, and that the. sale therefore took pla«« there. The iQformatioa xtaa dismissed. DUNEDIN, Friday. At Milton to-day John Hallard was fined fifty . pound* for keeping li^aor for scleViiL. the no-license dis- ■". trict oi Bruce. ■ Thomas Walker, a haWker, vaa fined £25 for selling eleven bottles of whisky in Milton on Show day last month. IJefendant bought whisky - at Henley for 8a a bottle, and sold it - at 7s a bottle in ICiltbft. ■•''--.• -'-V S .'•-.-