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New Zealand Tablet, 24 October 1912, Page 31

The question as to when schnapps are not schnapps was settled by Mr. W. G. Riddell, S.M., in a. reserved judgment at the Magistrate's Court to-day (says the Wellington Evening Post 'of September 25). : The case was the one in which Frederick Dobson was charged with being, in possession of liquor, purporting to be Wolfe's Schnapps, to which a false trade description was applied. On analysis by Dr. McLaurin it was found that the contents of the bottle were much inferior to the liquor in a . bottle of' schnapps procured from a wholesale house for comparison. ■!■ It was also proved that the label on the bottle in question, was a registered J trade- . mark, and should have guaranteed that the bottle contained genuine schnapps-of a quality similar to that of the wholesale sample. The sergeant who procured the sample had been given it without 'remarks as -genuine Wolfe's Schnapps. His Worship held that defendant must be convicted, and he fined Dobson £Q. . Leave to appeal was granted. Mr. A. Gray appeared 'for the defendant.... ■-;. t - % - .-"..V. -.- : ,.■;-■■' - ?