BEER IN TEA ROOMS
SEQUEL TO SMOKE CONCERT. (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, May 11. For allowing liquor to be consumed in her tearooms during hours when licensed premises were required tobe closed, Joan Tait was to-day fined £l. The rooms were in use at the time for the Scottish Society’s smoke concert. Counsel for the defendant said that there was no suggestion the function was of a disorderly nature. Defendant knew that beer had been brought into the place but it would have been impossible for her to have prevented Scotsmen from drinking it even if she had known the restriction. When questioned by the constable, defendant had said she was un'aware of any restriction in regard to the consumption of liquor. The Magistrate said that a nominal penalty would meet the case> as the section under which the charge was made was not very widely known. It was somewhat rare to find prosecutions brought under it.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 11 May 1928, Page 11
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