BOTTLE LICENSES.
(Per Press Association.)
DUNEDIN, this day.At the Police Court yesterday Leah Myers, keeper of refreshment rooms sin the Octagon, was ch.irged with sending ■a child under 13 years of age to a licensed house for beer. Defendant admitted sending a boy with a note to the holder of a bottle license, ordering six pint bottles of stout,, but tlie boy lost the note and; • money." Mr- Ha-nlon, for dptendant,. asked fo r a dismissal on the ground that a store holding a bottle license- was. not -a licensed house within the meaning, of the Act: The Magistrate (Mr Widdovvson) said the point had not. been raised before, and decision would be reserved.
_ George Rattley, employed by John Petersen, holder of a bottle license, was charged with selling liquor to a child under 14 years of age. Defendant said no . ; stout- on sale was labelled as described by the boy, and he had no recollection of the boy obtaining beer. Decision was reserved.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 11250, 15 April 1908, Page 5
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