WHISKY NOT TRUE TO LABEL

Manawatu Herald, Volume LII, Issue 4783, 16 July 1932, Page 2

WHISKY NOT TRUE TO LABEL

AUCKLAND LICENSEES FINED. Auckland, Last Night. Three licensees of Auckland hotels were prosecuted by the Department of Health in the Magistrate’s Court for alleged breaches of section 210 of the Licensing Act, 1908. Defendants were John Reilly, of the Royal hotel; Ernest Roy Baddily, formerly of the Rising Sun hotel; and Charles Flett, of the Commercial hotel. It was alleged that they had iit their session whisky bottles with labels atfiixed, and that without destroying the labels they made" use of the bottles for the. purpose of bottling liquor for sale. Alt pleaded, not guilty. Analysts gave evidence in the case of the whisky taken from the Royal hotel. “T am satisfied on the evidence that the whisky was neither ‘Black and White’ no ‘Perfection,’” said the Magistrate. “It. is true that defendant denies the charges, but I cannot believe that the whisky got into the (bottles in any other way than by defendant or his employees.” Reilly was fined £25 on one charge and £2O, the minimum amount prescribed by the law, on another. He was ordered to pav £8 18/11 costs. Similar evidence was heard in the cases against Baddily and Flett, both of whom denied all knowledge of how the labelled bottles came to contain whisky which was not genuine. Baddily was fined £2O on each of three charges and ordered to pay £lO 2/6 costs, while Flett was fined £2O on each' of two charges, with costs £7 17/11.