PROHIBITION ORDER.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVI, Issue 956, 2 July 1908, Page 21

PROHIBITION ORDER.

In connection with the difficulty of dealing with unkno vn v’-.V.bited persons, the “ New Zealand Times ” recently remarked that the 'A re at difficulty of identifying prohibited persons was referred to during the hearing of a case at the Magistrate’s Court in Wellington. Mr Cooke, who was defending a barman charged with having supplied liquor to a man against whom a prohibition order was in force, said that there was really no chance at all for a stranger to the bar to know who was prohibited and who was not. The only thing to go by was the name, and that was not very much. Mr Riddell, S.M., agreed that the English practice of supplying photographs and descriptions of prohibited people along with copies of orders had much to commend it, and could be followed here with some advantage. At present, the orders were often laid on one side, and but little attention was paid to them. Sub-Inspector O’Donovan remarked that the police were trying to ensure that when an order was issued it should not become a dead letter.