GIRLS BAFFLE MAGISTRATE
ATTEMPT TO JUDGE THEIR AGE. DRINKING WITH SAILORS. By Telegraph—Press Association. Christchurch, September 26. J Mr. E. D. Mosley, S.M., was baffled this morning when called to judge the age of three young women and decide whether or not they were 21. He thought one might be 21, but as the for the others, “it is exceedingly difficult at first glance to tell the age of women nowadays.” Because of this doubt he a charge of selling liquor to personsunder the age of 21 preferred against Thomas Aspell, licensee of the Eastern Hotel. Aspell, however, pleaded guilty to selling liquor after hours and was fined £3 and costs. _ The police said that the offence occurred on Sunday, September 17. The girls were in the company of three sailors from the cruiser Canberra. All were sober when they left in a taxi for the Port Hills. When this taxi was involved in an accident later in the evening the party came under notice Of the police.
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Taranaki Daily News, 27 September 1933, Page 7
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