APPARENTLY A MISTAKE.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 24, 29 January 1912, Page 8

APPARENTLY A MISTAKE.

LIQUOR UNLABELLED SENT TO A NO-LICENSE DISTRICT. Before Mr. A. Crooke, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court this afternoon, Edward Thomas Taylor, wine and spirit merchant, was fined 10s, with coste 7s, for sending a package containing liquor into the no-license district of Wellington South, such package not having been labelled as required by the Act. The case was characterised as a very trivial one by defendant's solicitor, Mr. T. Young, who explained that during the Christmas rush an order was given for some Jiquor to be sent to Day*6 Bay. Subsequently, however, the. man giving the order 6aid he wanted the liquor delivered at his private house in Newtown. Some fifty odd cases were loaded on a lorry for Newtown, and in the hurry and bustle the case in question was put on anlabelled. There was no intent on Mr. Taylor's part to evade the law, counsel instancing the fact that notice of the liquor having been sent to Newtown had been given to the Clerk of the Court as proof thereof. In entering a con vie-, tion his Worship said that apparently a mistake had been made.

Building operations are very brisk in Reefton, and carpenters are hard to get. Many new buildings are going up of a very superior class, and there is not an empty house worthy of the name in the town. ' . Designed to ensure cleanliness in the handling and preparation of food bylaws were provisionally pasaed by the Auckland City Council last week. "They are a direct result of the revelations made some months ago of shocking conditions in restaurants and food shops in the city, and the object has been to frame a set of by-laws sufficiently drastic to prevent a continuance of such conditions. They deal with hotels and eating houses of all kinds, the preparation and the sale 'of perishable foodstuffs generally; they embody regulations aimed against rats, with the general idea of safeguarding the population against infectious disease disseminated by those vermin. Cleanliness in every detail in the handling of foodetuii's is demanded by twenty-seven clauses comprised in Bylaw No. 14, which is an extension of Bylaw No. 1, made in January, 1904. For securing' the cleanliness and freedom from contamination of meat products the bylaws prohibit the preparation of meat for sale, in any place, unless it has a floor impervious to water, graded and drained, and floors must be kept free from accumulations of fat, grease, dirt, or pthor debris, maintained reasonably clean at all times, and thoroughly cleansed once a day. All premises used for these purposes must be licensed; and licensee will be issued only for buildings fulfilling the structural "requirements specified in the bylaw. The external openings of these premises must be completely covered with wire gauze to pre\«nt, as far as practicable, the access of flies or dust, aud every external door must be kept closed except when in use for ingress or for egrese. , . The discovery of an auriferous quartz reef is reported from the head waters of the Warwick stream, Atiurchieon districtMessrs. A. L. Wilson and Co. will hold a sale of household furniture on Wednesday, commencing at 11 a.m. The 6ale is being held under direction of th© executors of the late Mre. ' Hohyorthy, and will bo conducted at the residence, Belmont-road, close to the Lower Hutt Hallway Station, v ' I