FINED FOR SELLING LIQUOR “NOT TO LABEL”
i bcEer Press Association, INVERCARGILL, Last Night,
William.Latham Hogg, licensee of the Golden.,Age Hotel, Bluff, was fined £2O hi tlic‘3?olice Court to-day for selling brandy from a bottle with a wrong label It . was stated for defence that the bottle was merely there for filling decanters with draught brandy, and connseL submitted that it was only a technical offence, defendant admitting it quite, freely. V The Magistrate, said it all depended on.whatwas meant by the term “bottling.” To pour liquor into a bottle was bottling, and in his opinion an offence was proved.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6671, 26 July 1928, Page 10
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