THE LIQUOR LAW.

Otago Witness, Issue 2924, 30 March 1910, Page 3

THE LIQUOR LAW.

SENDING BEER INTO A NOLICENSE AREA. WELLINGTON, March 23. Three prosecutions bearing on the cori yeyance of liquor into a no-license district were brought by the police in the Magistrate's Court to-day, .before Mr W. G. Riddell. S.M., against George Green, fisherman, Island Bay, and Joseph Henry Chaney, employed at Macarthy.'s brewery. The former was charged that when giving an order for liquor to be taken into a no-license district he did not notify Chaney, to whom the order was given, that the liquor was intended to be taken into a no-license district, and did not give him his name and address. The •charges against Chaney were (1) that he delivered a package containing two gallons of beer to be taken into a no--license district, not having written or printed outside that it contained liquor, and (2). that he sold two gallons of beer to George Green to be taken into a nolicense district, and failed to send to the Clerk of the Court, Wellington, a statement in writing of ths nature and quantity of liquor so taken, and the name and address of the person ordering it, or oi the person by whom taken. Both defendants pleaded " Nob guilty." Mr Jackson appeared for Chaney and Mr Fitzgibbon for Green. Mr Riddell dismissed the information against Green, of whose address he held Chaney must have been cognisant. Chaney was convicted on each information. The offences being committed together, one fine of £3 with costs (9s) was imposed. The penalty for default was fixed at seven days' imprisonment.