THE LICENSING LAWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2769, 26 March 1910, Page 3

THE LICENSING LAWS.

SOME INTERESTING CASES.

IPicn Press Association. 1 WELLINGTON. March 24

Three prosecutions bearing on the conveyance of liquor into a no-license district were brought by the police in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday, before Mr W. G. Reddell, S.M., against George Green, a fisherman, at island Bay, and Joseph Henry Chaney, employed at Macarthy’s brewery. The former was charged that whem giving an order for liquor to be taken into a no-license district, he did not notify Chaney ,to whom the order was given, that the liquor was intended to be taken into a no-license district, and did not give him his name and address. The charges against Chaney were (1) that he delivered a package containing two gallons of beer to be taken into a no-license district, not haying written or printed outside that it contained liquor, and (2) that he sold two gallons of beer to Geo. Green to he taken into a no-license district, and failed to send to the clerk of the Magistrate’s Court, Wellington, a. statement in writing of the nature and quantity of liquor so taken, the_ name and address of the person ordering it, and of the person by whom taken. Both defendants pleaded not guilty. Mr Jackson appeared for Chaney, and Mr Fitzgibbon for Green. Evidence was given' by Geo. Green, who .said that while driving through Jvilbirnie to his home at Palmer’s Head. Island Bay, he was stopped by Constable Taylor, who seized two gallons of beer he had in his eart. Witness stated that he had purchased it from Chaney, whom he had known for years. 'He"did not give the latter his name and address, but when prohibition was carried in' Newtown he had asked him. what he would have to do about a drop of beer. Chaney replied that he could get the .beer all right, and that he would do it just as before. Chaney knew where witness lived, and had visited his house about the prosecution. Mrs Green said that she had called on Chaney, and said that she had informed hi m that her husband had got into trouble over the beer. Chaney remarked concerning the matter that he did not know him from a crow. Witness had known him for years. Joseph Henry Chaney admitted that .some years ago he knew that the Greens lived at Island Bay. He denied that he knew that Green was taking the beer into a no-license area. Mr Reddell dismissed the information against Green, of whose address ho held Chaney must have been cognisant. Chancy was convicted on each information. The offences being committed together, one fine of £3, with costs 9s, was proposed. The penalty for default was fixed at seven days’ imprisonment.