LIQUOR PROCURED
MAORI SHEARER FINED :* MAXIMUM PENALTY IMPOSED [FROM OCR OWN CORRESPONDENT] HAMILTON, Monday Charges of being drunk" and of pro- * curing liquor during the currency of prohibition order were preferred against Rawhi Dixon, a Maori shearer, aged 33, of Morrinsville, in the Hamil- ; ton Police Court to-day. . Senior-Sergeant G.. H. Lambert said ~ that accused was arrested at Tauwharo i on Friday afternoon. He had a fairly long list of previous convictions. -J; Mr. F. D. Robertshaw explained that£ accused had attended .the 'tangi of a* relative and the . liquor liad been given i to him. ■ -r,- avw.. ' Pointing out that accused had been j: fined £5 only a week before for break- :" ing the terms of his prohibition order, the magistrate, Mr. S. L. Patersou. said it was-of no use taking half measures with him. He was finwi. £l' for being drunk, fend, the maximum amount, £lO, for procuring, I An application for jMr fixed at one months unP nb
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23213, 6 December 1938, Page 9
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161LIQUOR PROCURED New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23213, 6 December 1938, Page 9
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