THE LICENSING ACT.
A STOREKEEPER FINED. PALMERSTON NORTH, January 29. A reserved judgment was given by Afr J. L, Stout, S.M., at the Magistrate’s Court to-day. The case was one in which Walter Hall Webb, storekeeper at Tokomaru, was charged on six informations with selling 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 at Palmerston North. Defendant carted the liquor back, making a charge per gallon in l addition to the usual price. The Alagistrate held that this constituted a Nile in contravention of Section 195 of the Licensing Act, there being no contract between customers and the brewery, (he latter looking to defendant for payment. Defendant was convicted on all charges and fined, by counsel’s request, £7 and costs on one charge, the others being adjourned, mention being made of an appeal.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3595, 6 February 1923, Page 8
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151THE LICENSING ACT. Otago Witness, Issue 3595, 6 February 1923, Page 8
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