LIQUOR IN "DRY” DISTRICT.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XX, Issue 1121, 5 October 1911, Page 22

LIQUOR IN "DRY” DISTRICT.

SIG-NATURE TO AN ORDER. A case presenting some pecuHar features was heard ’before the magistrate. Mr Burgess, at Thames on Thursday. A resident of Kerepeehi

(iHauraki Plains), which is situated in the Ohinemuri no-license area, was charged with sending an order for liquor without forwarding his address in writing and his name, Thomas H. Evans. The police, in the course of investigations, found an order signed “T. H. Evans,” which formed the basis of the charge. The defendant denied all knowledge of the order, which he declared to be a forgery. His last order he had given to the hotelkeeper, who supplied the order connected with the present charge. It was given at Christmas. The defendant, at the order of the Court, wrote his ordinary signature, which, on being compared with the signature on the order produced in Court, was declared to be unlike. The magistrate said the police had failed .to prove that the defendant was the man who had forwarded the order, or that he had signed it. There was evidently a case of forgery. The information was dismissed, but the po'ice are making further inquiries, and more will be heard of the matter.