SUNDAY BEER.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXXII, Issue 15511, 11 January 1911, Page 7

SUNDAY BEER.

A. WAITRESS’S MISTAKE. •At the-Magistrate's Court yesterday morning, Daisy Ludwick (Mr Hunter) appeared before Mr H. W. Bishop, S.M., on a charge of having sold beer at the Marine Hotel, Sumner, to two men on Sunday, December 18. Mr Hunter said that the defendant admitted the offence. She had been employed as a waitress at the Marino Hotel, Sumner, and had supplied the beer to the men under the misappreusion that'they were boarders. Sub-Inspector M’Grath said that two constables had gone to Sumner in plain clothes, in consequence of reports received by the police, and at the hotel they had obtained beer at luncheon, and had procured a bottle when leaving. Defendant was fined 20? and costs. James Hatfield (Mr Russell), the licensee, admitted a charge that,-through the action of. Daisy Ludwick, lie had supplied the two. men in contravention of the Licensing Act. Mr Russell said that the licensee’s wife and daughter had been ill on that day, and the waitress made a mistake. There had been a large number of golfers in the house, and it was a custom for them to take beer when they went out on to the links on Richmond Hill. The licensee had sold the house, the negotiations having been completed long before the offence was committed. Defendant was fined 20s and costs.