LIQUOR FOR MAORIS
FINES OF £4O AND £lO KING COUNTRY OFFENCES [by TKI.KG It Al'lI —OWN COHRKSI'OXDKNT] TAUMA RUNUI. Thursday Charged with supplying liquor to Maori women at Manunui on October 2, Edwin Grylls and Charles Roper were fined £4O and costs, and £lO and costs respectively by Mr. R. M. Watson, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court to-day. In a statement Roper said he was asked by Grylls to take a five-gallon keg of beer from the Manunui railway station on October 2. He took it to Grylls' whare. where he opened it and poured out four glasses of beer. He placed them on the mantelpiece, but denied handing the beer to Maori women. Evidence was given by one of the women that the beer was handed to her by Roper. The magistrate said that although Roper's case was not as serious as Grylls' it was not so simple as Roper had tried to make out.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22896, 26 November 1937, Page 14
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