THE NEW LICENSING ACT.

Colonist, Volume LIII, Issue 12975, 14 December 1910, Page 4

THE NEW LICENSING ACT.

CASE AT WAIHI.

I [United Pbess Association.^ Waihl, Deo. 18. The first case in the Dominion under the new Licensing Act was heard at the Magistrate's Court to-day, when Deverell, coach proprietor, iras charged with storing liquor under [section 38 of the Act. Evidence showed that a case of .liquor, consigned to a local resident, was conveyed from the railway station, to defendant's staJ bles and stored there for naif an hour< when the police entered and seized the* liquor. The police contended that this ■ was a breach of the Act, as no excep-f tion was made to carriers. In giving* his decision the Magistrate, JVtr Burgess, said that in his opinion the law did not intend that temporary doten-, tion of liquor in the hands of a carriej/ constituted .storing. The case wall dismissed. In another againsK a private resident in which the lattoa pleaded guilty to storing under thef same Act, the defendant was fined 40s) and costs. * (