BEER GIVEN TO SOLDIERS
♦ PROSECUTION OF THREE MEN (PBESS ASSOCIATION TELEGBAIt.) AUCKLAND, September 20. Appearing on summons in the Magistrate’s Court to-day, three men admitted charges of supplying intoxicating liquor to soldiers for consumption elsewhere than on licensed premises. . The police said the incidents happened when members of the 3rd Echelon were marching down a street. Two men each handed a bottle of beer to soldiers. The third handed half a bottle of whisky. Counsel for one man said his client handed to a former employee a parcel containing sandwiches, sweets, and a bottle of ale. He was ignorant of the regulations, the primary object of which was to stop soldiers from taking liquor away from licensed premises. The Magistrate (Mr J. J, Morling, S.M.), said the supplying was not done with a wrongful intention. He ordered each defendant to pay costs and suppressed their rr<mes. The public would now know the meaning of the regulations.
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Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23131, 21 September 1940, Page 15
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