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A charge of selling liquor 1 to Bertie Lee. a youth under 21 years of age, was preferred against a. barmaid employed at the Clarendon Hotel, who appeared before Mr. E. Page, S.M., at the Maeistrnte's Courj (p-rfav. Sub-In-speckir Cinnrwnss eXDlained tha.t on entering xka Las «if th« Clarendon Hotel, Sergeant Moriarty wa6 struck by the youthful appearance of Lee, who. was a seaman by occupation. He questioned him, and finaljv learnt that he was under 21 years of age. Lag.was called £o give evidence, and said that he osnally. represented himself to be twenty years of ace, because he was a sailor b? occupation and obtained more money if over twenty than he would otherwise. On the submission of Mr. Jackson that the youth, gave the general impression of being over twenty-one years of an-p the Magistrate decided to. dismiss the information.
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 147, 22 June 1923, Page 8
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145LOOKED TWENTY-ONE Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 147, 22 June 1923, Page 8
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