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Public Prosecutor v Shima [1930] VUNHJC 2; Criminal 589 (21 January 1930)

JOINT COURT OF THE NEW HEBRIDES

NO. 589

JUDGMENT

PUBLIC PROSECUTOR

v

SHIMA, Japanese,
British Dependent of Vila.

This twenty first day of January one thousand nine hundred and thirty.

In the matter of a charge against SHIMA, Japanese, British Dependent of Vila.

The above named SHIMA stands convicted of having at Siviri in the Island of Efate on the 25th December 1929 supplied 1 bottle of gin and 1 bottle of Pernot to natives KALMATAKU and KALOSIK contrary to Article 59 of the Anglo-French Convention of 1914.

Thereupon the Joint Court sentences the said SHIMA for his said offence to pay a fine of 100 francs and the costs of the prosecution.

President of the Joint Court
British Judge
French Judge
Acting Registrar