PROTECTING THE PUBLIC.
It-is pleasing to -see .that the authorities arc prosecuting-.hoUelkoopevs who brtf:ric t H>9, r iew by refilling bottles of ae-crecutecTVeil-known brands of spirits wit)/ infeVior, and perhaps deleterious 'substitutes. Ittis -the duty of the authorities. to protect the public in this matter, and at the, same time not to place'''the honest trader who sells the real article at a disadvantage with tiic dishonest one, and it is gratifying to know that ~the laws on the Statute Book in this respect are not now to he allowed to remain a dead-letter, but that the legislation of the Dominion is to ho enforced. Below we publish an extract taken from the “Evening Post,” Wellington, dated September 25th, of a recent prosecution :
“The question as to when schnapps •ivo not schnapps was settled by Mr. \V. G. Riddell, SAL, in a reserved judgment at the Magistrate’s Court to-day. The case was the one in which Frederick Dobson was charged with being in possession of liquor, purporting to ho Wolfe’s Schnapps, to which a false trade description was applied. On analysis by Dr. McLaurin it was found that the contents of the hot tie were much? inferior to the liquor in a bottle of schnapps piocuied from a wholesale house for comparison. it was also proved that the label on the bottle in question was a registered trade-mark, and should have guaranteed that the bottle contained genuine schnapps of a quality similar to that of the wholesale sample. The sergeant who procured the sample had been given it without remarks as genuine Wolfe’s Schnapps. llis Worship held that defendant must he convicted, and ho fined Dob-
son £6.. Leave to ‘ appeal was grant- ■ od. Mr. A. Gray appeared for the defendant.”
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 48, 21 October 1912, Page 3
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