SUPPLYING LIQUOR TO YOUTHS.
(Per Press Association.) NAI'IEIi, Jan. JIO. .) ndginvnt was giiven to-day ill four cases in which publicans were charged wfilu having served intoxicating liquor, to youths under the age of 18. years. The magistrate expressed the opinion that although it was proveablu thut the youths , were under the ug(e of 18 yours, yet I section 40 only mnkes licensees lia,*'Jlo for, supplying any person apparently under, tho age of 18, and it. ! was therefore npcessury Son the prosecution to show thut the youths | were apparently under the ago of 18 years, and this hud not been done. The defence on the other hand had called two medical men who have had oxpvriimco in judging ages, uitd they considered the youths were apparently, over 18, The cases were therefore dismissed.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7726, 31 January 1905, Page 2
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132SUPPLYING LIQUOR TO YOUTHS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7726, 31 January 1905, Page 2
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