LIQUOR PROSECUTIONS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16580, 2 July 1917, Page 4

LIQUOR PROSECUTIONS.

KING COUNTRY CASES. [BY TELEGRAPH.— OWN 1 /COIIRESPOhfDEKT.] TE' AWAMUTU. Saturday. Charged with supplying a. native w ; .th an unJft'boDed bottle of whisky for consumption off the premises, C. O'Brien, licensee of the Alpha Hotel, at Kihikihi, appeared at the Magistrate's Court on Friday. Senior-Sergeant Casscls prosecuted, and Mr. R. McVeagh appeared for the defendant, entering a plea of not guilty. The prosecution set out that Constable Woodley entered tho hotel, where ho foimd the nativo in the act of concealing the bottle in his hip pocket. ' The native denied that the licensee had sold him the whisky. Witness said he was intoxicated at the time and that he had given the money to a strange European, whom he had not seen since, to purchase the whisky for him. The case was dismissed. J. Ereeney, of Te Kuiti, was charged with supplying a* native with a bottle of whisky, and the native was also charged with commissioning Ereeney to purchase tho liquor. Both pleaded guilty. FreeVy was fined £5, with costs 7s, and the native, Manakawa. was fined £5, with costs 22s 6d. Hermann Windt was charged with having supplied whisky to a native woman, who that accused had come to her whar© at night with liquor. Ho was refused admittance, and returned in the early morning when he was again ordered off the place." Mr. Cox, counsel for the defence, said that accused had gone to the whare at night to find a native who had not been to work, and his horse had broken away. Attached to the saddle were packages of liquor and provisions, but when he returned and found the horse in the morning these packages were gone. He contended, however, that there was no caso to answer, the evidence being that the liquor had only been offered. The information was dismissed on these grounds.