The Magistrate said that defendant was liable to a penalty of 20. He looked on the offence as a serious one, because if it were not for such offences it would be almost impossible to carry on sly grog-selling to any extent, as all liquor of any quantity coming into a no-license district had to be notified to the clerk of the court, and the police had access to this information.
If the police suspected anyone they had a right to issue a search warrant and search the premises, but if the liquor was obtained by someone who was not suspected and handed over to a sly grog-seller, it left the police much in the dark.
As this was the first case of the kind in the no-license district of Clutha he (the magistrate) would not impose the maximum penalty, but in any future case the maximum penalty would be imposed. Defendant would be fined 10, with 9s costs.
•The most interesting section of the Southern Alps, shown in pictures at the King's Theatre at Wellington on Friday morning (says the Dominion), discloses the fact that, in nomenclature, the district is a veritable Austro-German ''fatherland''.
Such names as ''Franz Josef'', ''Hochstetter'', ''Mueller'', and ''Unser Fritz'' appear to abound, and it was freely suggested by several highly-placed Government officials present at the exhibition that the names should be changed without further ado.
It was suggested by one gentleman that much more euphonious and significant appellations could be given the various peaks and glaciers were Maori names selected to replace the enemy titles they now bear.
To send out such a film, freely labelled with German names, would have an effect the reverse of pleasing in other British dominions and the Allied countries.
•The manner in which the Christian churches in Victoria had responded to the call to arms was mentioned by the Rev. Val. Trigge in his address at His Majesty's Theatre, Christchurch, on Sunday (reports the Press).
Of the 200,000 men who had gone from the State, he said, two-thirds of those who had enlisted, or seven-eighths of the eligible men of the Christian congregations of Victoria, had come from the churches.
There was not a parsonage - he might say, also, not a vicarage - in which there was an eligible young man who had not gone.
Of the four V.C.s gained by Victorians in the war, three had been won by Methodists and one by a member of the Church of Christ. This showed how a Christian could fight for the principles of liberty and justice which were at stake.
Thus, in Victoria, 16,000 members of the Methodist Church had donned khaki.
•The Rita arrived from the The Snares on Sunday morning and brought back Spencer's sealing party with the result of its labours, comprising 209 skins (says the Southland Times).
The members report having had indifferent weather throughout the sojourn of almost two months.
The largest haul for one day consisted of 58 skins obtained on the reefs on the first day out. This was not surpassed, however, as the seals appeared to be scarce, although The Snares had not been worked for three years, the previous party being the Braggs, who obtained 339 skins.
- ODT, 13.10.1916
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