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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19777, 3 November 1938, Page 11

Breaches of the liquor laws were alleged in two cases tried in the Opotiki court this week, Taylor Tan a Maori, being fined £3 and costs foi obtaining liquor while subject to a prohibition order, and 10s for being found drunk in a public place; while Peter Hill, who admitted being found illegally on licensed premises, those of the Opotiki Hotel, was fined 10s and ordered to pay costs Messrs. Pine and Clarke, J.P.’s, tried the first caoc and Mr. E. L. Walton, S.M., the second. Of a more serious type was the charge against August Rorc, heard in the Whakatane court by Messrs. Brabant and Lucas, .J.P.’s, yesterday, the defendant pleading guilty to conversion of a motor truck, and being fined £lO and ordered to make good the damage done to the machine while in his possession.