Drink Prohibition.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1893, 6 October 1886, Page 3

Drink Prohibition.

At the Christchurch Magistrate's Court last Thursday a oase was heard illustrative of tbs liability of brewers for supplying liquor to psrsons prohibited under the Licensing Ast George Pitt, brewer, of St Albans, was aeeaeed of selling to John Tomes, a person prohibited under Section 167 of the Licensing Act, 1881, ten gallons of beer, with a knowledge of soeh prohibition. Ur Beet bam BJI. said the ease was a very clear one. It was a moat important matter that those whe supplied prohibited persons should know that, if sonneted, they would be severely dealt with. Defendant seemed to be under the impression that when a man who was raining himself and hie wife and family by drinking, and an order was made by the Cent nnder the very Act by which defendant himself was licensed to sell liquor, defendant actually though that under such eircumstanese—though the publicans who usually sold liquor in small quantities had no right to ■apply the man with liquor—a brewer, who sold it wholesale, could flood the man’s place with beer. It was a brewer's business to make bimiell acquainted with the Act nnder which he wee licensed. These cases were very difficult of proof, but when proved the fine would be heavy. Defendant would be finsd|the maximum rsoalty— £s and coats.