A WRONG LABEL.
HOTEL LICENSEE FINED. INVERCARGILL, July 25. William ’Latham Hogg, licensee of the Golden Age Hotel, Bluff, was fined £2O in the Police Court to-day for selling brandy from a bottle with .the wrong label. It was stated for the defence that; the bottle was merely, there for filling decanters with draught brandy, and counsel submitted that it was only a technical offence, the ‘ defendant admitting it quite freely.- - . ; : The magistrate said it all depended on what was meant by the term “bottling;” To pour liquor into a bottle was bottling, and .in his opinion the offence was proved; - ’ - . .. ’ - '
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Otago Witness, Issue 3881, 31 July 1928, Page 15
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101A WRONG LABEL. Otago Witness, Issue 3881, 31 July 1928, Page 15
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