YOUTHS AND DRINK.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 113, 4 July 1911, Page 5

YOUTHS AND DRINK.

barmaids fixed. (Per I’ress Association ) Palmerston North, July 3. The Magistrate’s Court was occupied this afternoon in considering the performances of one Leonard Mousley, who was 20 years of age last March, and a fellow farm-worker named Faulkner. Ho arrived here on Saturday, and, leaving his companion, visited the Clarendon Hotel, where, he said, he knew one of the barmaids, Miss Miles: According to Mousley’s account, lie shouted whisky and seda for Miss Miles and himself, and she shouted in return. Then he came outside and breathed on his mate Faulkner to show that he had had a drink, and wandered on to the Club Hotel, where the * pair had drinks, four or five each, ranging, from wine to shandy-gaffs, from Miss Lemon, who, however, would not drink with ■ Monsley, but took peanut toffee instead; Then the visitors started walking round the town till Constable Harry mot them and asked Mousley, who was staggering, where he got The drinks. bergeunt Wilhs took Mousley round, and ue Men tiffed the barmaids, who wore each fined forty shillings and costs for serving a youth under 2i years of age. For the barmaids it was pleaded that they had suspected Mousley’s youth, and if they asked people their ages they wore insulted in return. Mr Thompson, S.M., said they must ask the ages where any suspicion existed. It anyone insulted a barmaid he could deal'with him if brought before him.