LICENSING CASES

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8183, 26 July 1912, Page 8

LICENSING CASES

THEFTS OF LIQUOR.

SUBSTANTIAL PUNISHMENT METED OUT. PRESS ASSOCIATION. ROTORUA. July 2-5. At the Magistrate’s Court 10-iiaj’ Mr Dyer investigated charges of broaching a cash of whisky consigned to Oruanui, on tho Mokai-Putaruru railway. George Brown, a storeman, was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment, and on a charge of supplying a Maori with, liquor he was fined £2 5, in default three months’ imprisonment, the sentence to run concurrent with the previous term. Kahu Mahi was also convicted of stealing rum from a cask, the property of his employer, for whom he was carting. A fine of .£lO, with .£2 15s 9d costs was imDO&ed. DANNEVIEKE. July 23. Mr S. E. McCarthy, S.M., was occupied to-day hearing charges against Henry Baker, licensee of the Club Hotel, ot allowing youths under twenty-ono years to be supplied with liquor for consumption on the premises. Colen Doug.as Henry Baker (his son), and Annie Baker (wife of the licensee) wore charged with supplying liquor to youths for consumption on the premises. The youths wore alleged to have purchased whisky and drank it in a private room. The licensee said he turned them out when he learned that tho youths were on the premises. The other defendants did not remember serving them. Decision was reserved. An employee for a firm was fined AX for supplying liquor to a native woman. such liquor not being supplied for medicinal purposes upon tho authority of a registered medical practitioner. The liquor was bought and sent to tho pa. at Tahoraiti for the purpose of entertaining tho Dannevirko hunt at the conclusion of the recent run. but was not partaken of by the natives. Tho purchaser was charged with taking intoxicating liquor into the pa. . Counsel contended that the carrier who took the liquor to the pa should have been charged with tho offence. Decision wee reserved.