ONLY ONE FULL BOTTLE.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVII, Issue 968, 24 September 1908, Page 20

ONLY ONE FULL BOTTLE.

Despite the fact that such a small stock of liquor was. found on the premises, it did not prevent a heavy fine when, the other day, at Balclutha, before Mr Kenrick, S.M., George Fisher, of the Farmers’ Arms Hotel, Balclutha, was charged with unlawfully keeping liquor for sale on certain days between Juty Bth and August Bth, and with selling liquor on August 3rd. Evidence was given that defendant purchased thirty-eight bottles of whisky within a month, and that at the time of the raid only one full bottle was found. The defence was that seventeen bottles had been overlooked on the occasion of a previous raid. Defendant was convicted. It was then found there was no minute of the previous conviction, and no entry of it in the record book, so the case was dealt with as a first conviction. Defendant was fined £5O and costs. In no-license districts a second conviction carries imprisonment.