SLY-GROG SELLING
IN PROHIBITED AREAS
A MAGISTRATE'S OPINION
(Special to Times.) OTOROHANGA, Monday
Mr E. W. Burton, S.M., in the Otorolianga Magistrate's Court, to-day whan sentencing a Maori to a fine of £SO and £1 4s 6d costs for sly grog selling, said that his experience went to show that in the districts in Which he had served on the Bench, prohibition was an absolute failure. It was no good having no-license areas or proclaimed areas bordering on licensed areas. In bis magisterial experience he had proved this, both in the last few months and also in Central Otago, where he had formerly been stationed. It would be far better, in his opinion, to have licenses in the King Country than the present state of affairs, which only led to excessive drinking, as under the present laws a man got in a large quantity ol liquor—more than he would in ordinary circumstances —and he and his friends sat round until it was all consumed. Also in a number of cases it led to the natives, when they visited n licensed area, getting as much as they could carry inside them before they came home —a state of affairs which would not obtain if the districts were licensed.
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Waikato Times, Volume 91, Issue 14235, 9 December 1919, Page 5
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