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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11902, 9 December 1893, Page 2

At tho Dunedin Polico Court on "Wednesday a public-house licensee mimed Ellen Sinclair was fined 40s for supplying a prohibited person with drink, but the prohibited person (a man) was fined 40s with the alternative of seven duys' imprisonment for obtiining the drink. The caso9 were brought and penalties imposed under the new Act-. Some people have thought, because the licensing eleotions do not take place until Match, that the new Act does not come into operation until then. It is well that all who are affected by it should remember that the Alcoholic Liquors Sale Control Act is in operation now. The provision of the "Licensing Act of 1881" with regard to prohibited persons is still in force, but the new Act further provides (Clause 13) that any prohibited person who, during the currency of a prohibition order against him, shall purchase or procure any feunented or spirituous liquor from any licensed pwson within any district in which such prohibition order ie in force shall be liable on conviction to a penalty not exceeding iSIO, or in default thereof to be imprisoned with hard labour for a term not exceeding three months. A prohibition order is now a double-odged weapon. The provision of the new Act which applies to the safe of liquor to children will bo found in Clause 12, Sub-section 8, and is as follows: — "JN T o intoxicating liquors shall be sold or supplied, or allowed to bo sold or supplied, to any person apparently under 13 years of age, for consumption off the premises, under v penalty for every such offence of a sum not exceeding £5." Eleven o'clock licenses may now be granted at any quarterly meeting of the Licensing Committee, on pavmont of an additional fee of £5, but after June next all 12 o'clock licenses shall ba abolished tbroughoutNev; Zealand. Theroaroanumber of other minor aUeiutioDs in the law as it stood before la&l session which those who are engaged in the t.-a'ie should study, and which they will find lumped together in Clause 12 of the new statute, the Alcoholic Liquors Sale Control Act of last session.