THE AGE LIMIT

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVI, Issue 946, 23 April 1908, Page 20

THE AGE LIMIT

Last week in Dunedin, at the Police Court, 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, for the defendant, asked: for a dismissal, on the ground that the 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, and decision wou’d be reserved.

George Rattley, employed by John Peterson, holder of a 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, andi he had no recollection of the boy obtaining beer. Decision was reserved.