UNDER GRADE WHISKY
LYTTELTON HOTELKEEPERS FINED. (Per United Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, June 8. The Lyttelton Licensing Committee recently requested that a test should be made of liquor sold at the various hotels in Lyttelton licensing district. As a result, fines totalling £7O have been imposed on three licensees for exposing for sale whisky not true to label. The following have been convicted and fined—Thomas Wilson, Grand Hotel, Akaroa, £2O; George Henry Scott, Canterbury Hotel, Lyttelton, £2O; Frank William Wright, Lake Forsyth Hotel, Little River, £3O. Wright was charged with exposing liquor not true to label, in that he put draught whisky into case whisky bottles. He pleaded guilty and stated that it did not pay him to sell case whisky at the present price of 9d a nip.
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Southland Times, Issue 18963, 9 June 1923, Page 5
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128UNDER GRADE WHISKY Southland Times, Issue 18963, 9 June 1923, Page 5
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