PURCHASE OF LIQUOR BY A CHILD.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13636, 15 April 1908, Page 2

PURCHASE OF LIQUOR BY A CHILD.

DUNEDIN, April 14. At the Police Court to-day, Leah Myers, keeper of refreshment-rooms in the Octagon, was charged with sending a child under thirteen years of age to a licensed house for beer. Defendant admitted sending the boy with a note to the holder of a bottle license, ordering six pint bottles of stout, but the boy lost the note and the money. Mr. Hanlon, tor the defendant, asked for a dismissal, on the gjouad« that v a store holding a bottle license was not a licensed house* within the meaning of the Act. The Magistrate, Mr. Widdowson, said the point had not been raised before. Decision would be reserved.

George Rattley, employed by John Peterson, holder of the bottle license, was charged with selling liquor to a child under thirteen years of age. Defendant said no stout on sale was labelled as described by the boy, and he had no recollection of the boy obtaining beer. Decision was reserved.