FINED £150.

Press, Volume XLIV, Issue 19400, 28 August 1928, Page 10

FINED £l5O.

■ j ——♦- —- DRAUGHT BEER SOLD AS BOTTLED. (PBESS iSSOCUTIOH TXMOBMt.) AUCKLAND, August 27. For having in his possession bottles bearing three well-known labels, and | without removing the labels using the bottles for rebottling liquor for sale, Andrew Beggs, late licensee of the Masonic Hotel, Devonport, was fined £l5O, £SO on each charge, at the PO M C /H°ubbte, who appealed for the Health Department, described.Beggs offence as serious, as it. was deliberate, Snd followed two previous convictions of a similar nature. On July 2nd, two Health Department inspectors bought two bottles °f beer at the hotel While drinking the beer m the bar they noticed that the bottles were sealed with pfaln tops instead of being labeled with the brand that was on the bottles. Their suspicions were aroused and tney obtained samples of three bottles each of three brands of beer, all nine bottles being sealed with plain tope. An analysis showed that in each case the beer in all the bottles was substantially the same. An analysis of the brands of beer they purported to be showed considerable differences . "It is a profitable undertaking, concluded Mr Hubble, "as draught beer is only half the price of the bottled variety.'' For Beggs, Mr MacVeagh said he had a free house with permission to rebottlo from draught, and that possibly in the course of this process the assistants had omitted to remove the labels from the bottles turough pressure of business. . . "I am of opinion that Beggs must have known something of what was going on," said Mr Levien, S.M., as he imposed the fine.