SELLING BEER WITHOUT A LICENSE.

Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13411, 8 May 1912, Page 6

SELLING BEER WITHOUT A LICENSE.

-AH. WITHIN A NO-LICENSE AREA

A FINE OF £50 INFLICTED

[Unitsd Press Association.]

Timaru, May 7

At the Magistrate's Court at Geraldine to-day. Bernard Kennedy, a farm labourer, was charged with selling beer without a liconsci at Mayfiold, which is within tho Ashburton no-license area. The police gave ovid-ence of complaints about young men being made drunk at the accused's place, also the finding there of two men under the influence of liquor, one IS-ga!]on keg tapped, another untapped, and two empty tongallon kegs. The defendant stated that he made tho plant and brewed the boor himseK on tho premises, filling the four kegs. He denied having sold any. Tin's was his first brew at Mavfiold.

A Government analyst reported that a sample of the beer contained v.6 per cent of spirit.

The Magistrate convicted and fined defendant £50, and gave defendant a fortnight to raise the money.