SENDING LIQUOR INTO A NOLICEKSE DISTRICT.
AN ASHBURTON CASE. ASHBURTON, December 2. At the Magistrate's Court to-day, before Captain Wray, S.M., the Timaru Brewing Company was charged with a Breach of "The Alcoholic Liquors Sale Control Act, 1895." The information wais laid under section 33, clause 1, which deals with the illegality of eending into a no-lioenso district liquor which may be intended for use. The case arose out of recent proceedings against one Williams, who was fined £20 for keeping liquor for sale. About 18gal a w-eek had been supplied Williams for a. period cf two to three months. The defence was that it was understood that Williams was a carrier, and there was no reason to suppose he was getting the liquor for sale. The Crown Prosecutor (Mr JStnnger) held that it was careless proceedings to supply large quantities of liquor to an unknown man. It was the defendant's duty to make inquiries. It had been shown that practically no inquiries had been made. In giving judgment the magistrate said the quantity of liq-cior supplied was a factor in the case. Unless the brewer knew the circumstances of the man to whom the liquor was supplied, the amount supplied would cause no suspicion. He thought the defendant had shown that he was not cognisant of the circumstances of the consignee of the liquor and had no reasonable grounds to suppose that the liquor was to be illegally cold. He dismissed the case, and hoped that the defendant would make careful inquiries m future.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2647, 7 December 1904, Page 4
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