PLENTY OF PURGE.

NZ Truth, Issue 135, 18 January 1908, Page 5

PLENTY OF PURGE.

j» — HOW ASHBURTON IS IRRIGATED. Andrew Young's Sly Dodge. A Tale that did iiQt go Down. Prohibition isn't entirely successful m Ash-burton, m fact it causes considerable dishonesty and tricky conduct .■ by persons who smuggle it into the ' proscribed area. Sometimes a poor | devil who can't aSord it goes up for ! , handling the fiery liquid, but Andrew-. Young, one of the latest victims, is a person reputed to be worth six thousand pounds, more or less, and is i even accused of voting no-licehse. I ij Young, is a storekeeper, and his me~ jthod was to order whisky and beer I ,' m the name of some local settler and ! then dispose of it m the usual man-' : ner. The assumption is that the set- ! j tier got something for lending his name, seeing that he offered no ohjjection ; at any rate, it ,is hard to bel.lieye that he was complacent enough ; to permit his fair moniker to be sous- ; ed m alcohol for nothing. Young got j - m a pretty large supply for the I Christnvas- season, - and, . all might > have been well if bis' accommodating settler hadn't repudiated the. swankey . when the police asked questions. On ■ the evening of December 20 Sergeant iFou-hy accosted Young and his son, i who were driving a vehicle j CONTAINING A CRATE OF SWAN j j ' "i KiEV . down one of the back streets. Inyesti'i gatibn showed that it was addresser)' ito "Rowntree, Ashburton," Rov.'n- : tree 'bi ing a Farmer who had acted :as dummy for Voting proviously. The. I bobby co-'».*pd fit bottles of Walker's | whisky, one bottle of White Horse, j and one of gin. There were five ordinary cases- of liquor, and Rowntree. was evidently going ' to- have a blue, j Mind paralytic, time, hut tho police assumed ' eortre-t'ly that 'it was - Young's customers vho were goj-ng .-■ '-o "mk-i-be. Tl'e eraear.t sent l^oMiv Donovan to Frnvntree to inquire if ho was e-pe ti'i'!. ,mv swill, and that j t'-^'iib'lm-; i flivirtual riepudiatr-d all knov loi-e of the accursed stuif. Youn . i -a.- "-• nn to ih:- farm and tried' to -pcrs ade I» ban tree i<\ take th.--crate, hi t. i-he .cautious • rustic wp^n':, oorn ye t rda.' , mot the day before, .nd ho c.-v'^t Young <^i for ever. Youn:..; ||.rf-naar:;od that if Kpiinfree permit *'•'-' j the .purgr- to remain on the pa-cmlsses ihe Young) woe, id ay half the \'we '■'nut TNii-ntre.'* said, "'A'vau^t " o 7 'A-iast. 1 ' ,:.i- "o>f /-.!>•*•_" ,-> r ' ■.. f . ? -n «-' 'ihl..V i-M,".iallv di, : eo;ica^i!.Mr, and 1 Y^'ouii • |ro l-i- j f'^re vu ter nv.'o'. a.f- . t<-i ->b.o:^ir.p- for tVe ,-^-d n i: r' rc- >_ tu'rnrri l! to 'I'in-iar 1 .: v.ith the irrtimar;ion t>;at the customer WouUn't take delivery. , , Yoiing was. fharged witft keeping lienor for sale, and Hountreo told th( Court that, iie 'bad signed an or- ■ der for five cases f r om Wiison, of Ti- , maru, trot no ino.nnv -^as given to- ** r r> |! iiVK. .sisd'the ek'ohol w-as for that.; T? own tree bad given his - -a-':''- m a .-,'>•• ay once before. 1 Magistrate Day.; If the liquor bad . bo-i?n taken, by -you fronv tkp railway . Ration, would you . b.ave lianded it j ove; to Young 7 — Yes. j Solicitor Purnell, for the defence, ; submitted that the. linn or had not. 'been, exposed for sale. .Moreover, it : i:n -longed to the man (.Rpuntree) to . whoni. -it was addressed and who had i a perfect right to order it, and , Young was simply m tb" position of a carrier. Young gave evidence that | jbe had received an order from . Roun- | tree to obtain .(his boo/e. It was ; true that six days before the whisky . arrived be had ; RECEIVED EIGHTEEN GALLONS j OF BEER j and about a month before Christmas 1 , he had .also received a quantity of j hops. He was ih the habit of giving! | his customers a taste^at Christmas.; i time. He acknowledged having had i two cases of whisky once, which the police tried to locate and couldn't j find. He. had planted the whisky to prevent the police scenting it, but it . wasn't kept for sale. Day, S.M., imposed a fine, of £20 and costs. \