Bottles and Schooners.
BREACHES OF THE LICENSING ACT.
DUNFDIN FIRMS FINED
Oamaru, April i
A. number of Dunedin firing were mulcted in a line of 5a each, and costs tTsi, for technical breaches '>t the Licensing Act in sending liquor into the Ofimtirii no-license district without stating exactly tin quantity contained in the packages. The offence consisted of describing a case of whisky as. a case, instead of stating the quantity contained in the case. His Worship said that, while a bottle was generally of a certain size, there were such things ns " schooners," which, if filled with whisky, \% hold a much larger quantity than an ordinary whisky bottle. The breach was a technical one, and he imposed a nominal fine.
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Mt Benger Mail, 15 April 1914, Page 3
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