PROVISIONS TO BE OBSERVED IN GREY LYNN.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XIV, Issue 852, 5 July 1906, Page 21

PROVISIONS TO BE OBSERVED IN GREY LYNN.

“THE ALCOHOLIC LIQUORS SALE CONTROL ACT AMENDMENT ACT, 1904.” 33. With respect to every district the electors whereof have duly determined in manner prescribed by the Licensing Acts that no licenses be granted therein, and so long as, pursuant to such determination, no licenses are in force therein, the following provisions shall apply : — (1) It shall not be lawful for any person whomsoever — (a) To solicit or receive any order for any liquor within such district: nor (b) to sell, or expose or keep for sale, any liquor within such district: nor (c) to send (either from without or within such district) or deliver to any person residing therein, or at any place situate therein, any liquor which the person sending or delivery the same has reasonable ground to suspect is intended to be sold, or exposed or kept for sale, therein: nor (d) To send or deliver to any person residing therein or to any place situate therein any package containing liquor, unless such package bears distinctly written or printed on the out side thereof a statement that it contains liquor. Any inspector appointed under the Licensing Acts may de tain and in the presence of at least two witnesses examine the contents of any package in respect whereof a violation of this provision is reasonably suspected by him.

LICENSING ACTS AMENDMENT ACT, 1904.” 5. (a) Every person who gives any order (whether verbal or in writing) for any liquor intended to be sent or taken into the district shall notify the person to whom the order is given that the liquor is intended to be sent or taken, and shall give to such last-mentioned person a statement in writing of his name and address, and (where the order is given on account of any other person) the name and address of such other per-

son. , „ .. (b) Every person who sells any liquor in compliance with any such order shall, if so notified as aforesaid, or if aware that the liquor ordered is to be sent or taken into such district, furnish to some clerk of a Magistrate’s Court, to be appointed by the Minister, a statement in writing of the nature and quantity of the liquor so sent or taken, and of the name and address of the person ordering the same, and of the person to

whom it is sent or by whom it is taken; and all such statements shall be filed by the clerk. (c) Every brewer, wine or spirit merchant, or other vendor of liquor shall keep a book in which he shall enter all orders received by him for the delivery of liquor in such district, the nature and quantity of all liquor so delivered by him in compli ance with any such order, and the address of the person ordering the same and of the person to whom the liquor is to be delivered. (d) All statements filed as foresaid, and every such book as aforesaid, shall be open to inspection by any Magistrate, Inspector of Licensed Premises, or by any person appointed in that behalf by any Court before which proceedings under this section or under section 33 of the Amendment Act of 1895 have been taken, but save as aforesaid shall not be open to inspection by any person (e) Every person who (i) Being a resident in such district, obtains, or who, acting on behalf of any such resident, obtains or orders liquors to be delivered in such district to him or any such resident without notifying the vendor or the vendor’s agent that he is such a resident as aforesaidsaid, or that the liquor is to be delivered to such a resident as aforesaid : or (ii) Sells any liquor to, or for delivery to, any such resident as aforesaid without making an entry of the sale in the books aforesaid, or without furnishing a statement to the clerk of the Magistrate’s Court as aforesaid: or (iii) Knowing that any liquor is being supplied in breach of this section, delivers such liquor to any resident as aforesaid, is liable to a fine for the first offence not exceeding twenty pounds, and for the second or subsequent offence to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds; or, if he be a licensee, to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds for a first offence and one hundred pounds for a second offence, and for a third or subsequent offence to a fine not exceeding two hundred pounds or his license may be cancelled. (f) Nothing in this section shall prevent any resident in such district, when outside the district, from ob taining for his own personal use, with right to take the same into the district if he chooses, liquor not exceeding one quart of spirits or wine, or one gallon of beer in any one day; and it shall not be necessary for the vendor to enter such sale as required by paragraph (c) hereof, or to furnish any statement to the clerk of the Magistrate’s Court in respect thereof.