AN EXPENSIVE BREW.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LX, Issue 143785, 8 May 1912, Page 3

AN EXPENSIVE BREW.

IN NO-LICENSE DISTRICT.

Per 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 license at Mayfield, within the Ashburton uo-license district. The police led evidence of complaints about young men being mad© drunk at accused’s place, and of the finding there of two men under the influence of drink. They found one 18-gallon keg of beer tapped and another untapped; also two empty 10-gallon kegs. Defendant stated that he made a plant and brewed the beer himself on the premises, filling the four kegs. He denied having sold any. This was his first brew at Mayfield. A Government analyst reported that a sample of the beer contained 5.6 per cent, of spirit. The magistrate convicted accused and fined him £SO, giving him a fortnight to raise the money.