THE LICENSING ACT
A STOREKEEPER FINED. (Per United Press Association.) PALMERSTON NORTH, January 29! A reserved judgment was given by Mp J. L. Stout, S.M., at the Magistrate’* Court to-day. The case was one in whin)? Walter Hall Webb, storekeeper at Tokomaru, was charged on six informations with soiling liquor without a license. Defendant, said the Magistrate, was in the habit of accepting orders for beer and stout and obtaining the liquor from a brewery an Palmerston North. Defendant carted thq liquor Lack, making a charge per galloft. in addition to the usual price. The Magiatrate held that this constituted a Tale in contravention of Section 195 of the Licensing Act, there being no contract between customers and the brewery, the latter looking to defendant for payment. Defendant was convicted on all charge.* and fined, by counsel’s request, £7 and costs on one charge, the others being adjourned, mention being made of kn ap< peal.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18774, 30 January 1923, Page 5
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