THE "REAL STUFF."
CENTENNIAL BEER.
SOLD AT EXHIBITION.
POLICE RAID SEQUEL.
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. Drunken men seen in the vicinity of an Exhibition stall selling "Centennial shandy and Centennial beer" aroused police suspicions, and the outcome was a raid resulting in the appearance in the Magistrates Court to-day of .Joseph Francis Aspell, a stall manager, Ronald Simpson, a stallholder, and Ezra Brown, an attendant, on charges of breaking the licensing laws.
Aspell, for keeping liquor for sale in a no-license district, and Simpson, for selling liquor in a no-license district, were each com icted and fined £12 1(1/. while Brown, for selling, was lined £.">.
The police said drunken men were noticed near the Centennial beer luir. Two constables went there and bought ordinary beer, paying sixpence a handle for it. The bar was found to be equipped with two !*>er pumps, one containing ••Centennial — indy - ' and the other the "real stuff." Inquiries revealed that 32S gallons of beer had been bought m a month, two 18-gallon barrels being used in a dav.
Counsel for defendants said thev had been watering the boer down to *3 per cent with lemonade or water If lemonade was added the mixture was '•Centennial shandy," and if water -'Centennial beer."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 87, 12 April 1940, Page 3
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