COMMENT BY JUDGE
KING COUNTRY DRINKING
“It appears that there is a club somewhere in Ohakune where liquor might be obtained,” said Mr. Justice Smith in the Supreme Court, Wanganui, yesterday, when sentencing two men for breaking and entering. ‘‘l don't know whether the police know anything about it, but presumably they do,” His Honour added. Counsel said one of the prisoners had been drinking and referred to other aspects of the case in which liquor was mentioned. This prompted His Honour to ask if Ohakune was in the King Country, and on being told that it was a proclaimed area commented on the club.
The other accused, in a statement from the dock, declared that he had consumed so much liquor that he did I not know what he was doing. He had a bottle of sherry shortly before one o’clock in the afternoon, and later | consumed some home-brewed stout. “Shortly after four o’clock I went to the Football Club where 1 had draught beer,” prisoner added. “After that I don’t remember anything.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 41, 19 February 1943, Page 4
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