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WHISKY IN WRONG BOTTLES By Telegraph.—press association. / Christchurch, June 8. The Lvttelton Licensing Committee recently requested that a test should be made of liquor sold at the various hotels in the Lyttelton licensing district. As a result, fines totalling £7O have been imposed on three licensees for exposing for sale whisky not true to label. The following havo been convicted and fined: —Thomas Wilson, Grand Hotel. Akaroa, £2O: Georgb Henry Scott, Canterbury Hotel, Lyttelton. £2O ; Frank. William 1 Wright, Lake Forsyth Hotel. Little River, £3O. Wright was charged with exposing liouor not true to label in that he put draught whisky’into case whisky bottles. Ho pleaded guilty, and stated that it did not pay him to sell case whiskv at the -present price of 9d. per nip. >
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Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 224, 9 June 1923, Page 6
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