LICENSING CASES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 10535, 9 August 1912, Page 2

LICENSING CASES.

[Per Pbess Association.]

DANNEVIIIKE, August 9. Judgment was given yesterday by Mr S. E. McCarthy, S.M., in a case in which a Native woman was charged with taking liquor into a proclaimed area, Talioraite Pa. Defendant, in order to provide refreshments for the end of a run of the Dannevirke Hunt Club, purchased beer and whisky and sent the same to the pa by a carter. It was contended for the defence that the carrier should have been prosecuted. His Worship held that under Section 53 of the Justices of the Peace Act defendant was liable, and sh© was convicted, and fined £2 and costs. Henry Baker, the licensee of the Club Hotel, was fined £5 and ordered to pay costs for allowing a youth under tho ago of twenty-one years to be supplied with liquor for consumption on the premises. Colin Douglas Honrv Baker - and Annie Baker, son and wife respectively of the licensee, were each fined £1 and costs for supplying youths under twenty-one years of age with liquor for consumption on licensed premises. In view of the fact that the licensee was not personally aware of the commission of the offences and that he ordered the youths off the premises as soon n$ lie discovered they were there, his Worship refrained from endorsing tho license.