LICENSING MATTERS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 8 June 1923, Page 7

LICENSING MATTERS.

, ■» I , HEAVY FINES NEAR LYTTELTO.N. TEST CASE LHGEI>. J

(BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION.) > CHRISTCHURCH, June b. | The Lytteltcm Licensing Committee recently requested that a -test case should be made of liquor sold at the various hotels in the Lyttelton licensing district. As a result fines total-! ling £70 have been imposed on three i licensees for exposing for sale whisky : not true to kbel. The following have been convicted and fined: —Thomas Wilson, Grand Hotel, Akaroa, £20; George Henry Scott, Canterbury Hotel, Lyttelton, £20; Frank "William Wright,'Lake Forsyth Hotel. Little Kiver, £30. Wright was charged with exposing liquo.r not true to label, in that he put draught whisky into case whisky bottles. He pleaded.guilty. He stated: that it did not pay him to sell whisky! at the present price of 9d a nip.