LIQUOR FOR MAORI
KING COUNTRY OFFENCE
TWO MEN CONVICTED
[BY TELEGHAPH-r—OWN CORRBSPONTKNT} -TE- KUITI, Tuesday Convictions were recorded against Robert Black, and E. J. Peterson, jun., by Mr. JT. H. Levien, S.M., in a reserved judgment delivered in the Te E!uiti Magistrate's Court to-day. Black was charged with supplying a native with liquor and with failing to notify when ordering the liquor the name and address of the person for whom it was intended.' On the first charge he was fined £5, with costs, and on;the second £l, with costs. Peterson was fined .£2 on the charge of aiding and abetting Black in the commission of the first offence.
The matter was adjourned from the last Court sitting to allow Mr. Levien to go into the meaning of the word "supply," as used in the information, ]VIr. Mackersey having contended that manual supply would have to be proved before a conviction could be entered. In his judgment Mr. Levien held this objection was not valid. The word was not intended to have a strictly technical interpretation.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22045, 27 February 1935, Page 14
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176LIQUOR FOR MAORI New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22045, 27 February 1935, Page 14
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