BREACH OF ACT IN SALES OF WINE
Company And Two Salesmen Convicted and Fined AUCKLAND, Last Night (P.A.)— Breaches of the Licensing Act were admitted by Vita Cellars Ltd., wine merchants, of Christchurch, and two of its salesmen. Robert Britain and Robert Peterson, before Mr. Luxford, S.M. The company was charged with selling wine from an authorised place, soliciting orders for liquor in a nolicence district. Britain was charged with aiding and assisting the company in selling. soliciting, and soliciting in a nolicence district and taking liquor into a no-licence district. Peterson was charged with aiding and assisting on the soliciting and taking liquor into a no-licence district. Senior Sergeant Southworth said that the company sent the two defendant salesmen to Auckland last December to solicit orders. They obtained orders in no-licence areas and a bulk store was established in the city from which orders were supplied. The company’s licence only authorised it to sell from its place of business in Christchurch About 90 cases of wine were seized by the police in a raid. For the defendants, Mr. King said the orders for wine were sent to Christchurch and recorded there, but the wine was distributed from the city depot. The whole business was open and there had been a full disclosure of the facts to the police. ‘Anyone who becomes a licensee under the Licensing Act has a definite obligation to know what his licence means,” said the magistrate. “Our licensing laws may be complicated out in regard to this type of licence it is not difficult at all. although it is possible to offend innocently in a nolicence district.”
Stating that the company had neglected to understand and appreciate its duties as a licensee, the magistrate fined it £2O for selling wine at an unauthorised place, and £2 each on the two other charges. Britain was fined a total of £9 on four charges, and Peterson a total of £7 on two charges. The magistrate declined to make an order for forfeiture of the wine seized, as he said that would be an excessive penalty.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 19 February 1949, Page 6
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348BREACH OF ACT IN SALES OF WINE Wanganui Chronicle, 19 February 1949, Page 6
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