LONG EAR LAW.

NZ Truth, Issue 473, 11 July 1914, Page 10

LONG EAR LAW.

Courts and their ways aro sometimes things that no fellah can understand. Last week, m tho Wellington Magistrate's Court, a victim was flned twenty-five golden quldlets for selling liquor without a llconso. A few weeks previously a firm, for keeping gelignite without a license, was fined the paltry sum of seven shillings and sixpence, despite tho fact that this same gelignite had blown seven men to pieces— a bob for each man and sixpence over for tho injured. When will our dispensers of law learn some little sense of proportion. A.nent the sly-grog caso commented on above, an order was mudo by the magistrate for tho destruction of the vessels containing tho liquor. The curiosity of "Truth's" rep. led him lo ask a dotectlvo what became of the liquor confiscated m sly-grog cases ~ woa It really destroyed? "Oh, yes!* ropllod th'e Sherlock Holmes. "A" sergeant stands by and sees that It Is poured down tho sink. It's a damned, shame. I have often thought of getting under the grating and turning my; mouth up."