BREACHES OF PROHIBITION ORDERS.

Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12765, 5 February 1910, Page 4

BREACHES OF PROHIBITION ORDERS.

INCREASED POWER OF MAGISTRATES. A WARNING TO AN INEBRIATE. (.United Pbess Association.] Christchurch, Feb. 4. ' An important statement relating to breaches of prohibition orders, was made by Mr Bailey, S.M., at the Police Court this morning, when a man appeared before him charged with procuring liquor while prohibited. Mr Bailey remarked that the Magistrates now had more power than they previously had in dealing with these eases. "Hitherto," he said, " a man had to have a, certain number, of convictions for drunkenness against him before he could be sent to an inebriates' home, but now if a man commits a breach of a prohibition order, we can. send him to a home. If you come up again on a similar charge, I .will seriously think of sending you to an inebriates' home for two years." The defendant was convicted, and or-, dered to come up for sentence when called upon. . i