DEFYING THE LAW.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVII, Issue 1055, 26 May 1910, Page 21

DEFYING THE LAW.

THE FATE OF A BARREL OF BEERA journey to Hikutaia by Thomas Flynn, a Karangahake resident, and the subsequent purchase by him of five gallons of beer, caused him to appear at the Paeroa Police Court on Thursday before Mr. F. J. Burgess, S.M., to answer a number of charges. First of all he was charged with bringing into a no-license district a package containing beer, without such package bearing the. statement that it contained liquor. Secondly, he was charged with purchasing liquor from Julia Corbett, of Hikutaia, for the purpose of bringing it into a no-license area, without notifying the vendor of his name and address. Thirdly, he was charged with failing to notify the vendor that he was a resident of a no-license district. The third charge was subsequently withdrawn. Sergeant McKinnon, who conducted the prosecution, said that defendant went to Kikutaia and purchased five gallons of beer there. It was not la-belled-properly, and he did not notify the vendor that he was bringing it into a no-license district. Defendant got his beer safely as far as Paeroa, but Constable Henry happened to be on the Paeroa railway ..station platform, and the package not being properly labelled he seized the liquor. Similar breaches of the law had been very frequent :in this district, and they had been well notified through the press. Defendant said he was ignorant of the law, and thought that if he travelled with the liquor he could bring it into the district. The package had his name on it. - • Sergeant McKinnon: He had the barrel in a sack. Defendant said he did not deny having the liquor when questioned by the constable. The Magistrate said there had been a number of convictions for the same thing in the district, and defendant could, not have been altogether ignorant of the law. On the charge of the package not bearing a statement that it contained liquor defendant would be fined £3 and 9s costs, and in the other; case he..would be convicted and ordered to pay 7s costs;—Ohinemuri Gazette.