LICENSING LAW BREACHES

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 1, 26 September 1918, Page 6

LICENSING LAW BREACHES

I By TelCßi-aph.—Press Association. Nelson, September 25. i Mr. B. C. Levyey, S.M., lieard a caso to-day in which W". S. Horracks,, licensee of the Tnsman 'Hotel, was charged with supplying liquor before tho. lawful hours of opening, with exposing liquor before hours, of selling liquor "before hours, and with permitting treating. The onse rested on tho evidence of α-constable, supported , by certain admissions made l)y_ another defendant, Who was charged with treating, but denied by him in tho box. Horracks was convicted on all the charges, and fined £40 for 'treating, £10 for supplying, £1 each for exposing and selling, and on the last charge the license was' endorsed. Bass, a barman, -was convicted of .permitting treating, and was fined £10. Ono man on tho promises was fined £7 10s., and anothor £0.. _ ' ■iS'ecurity for appeal was given in all cases.

Of tlip world's coal s mlned 1,235,000,000 tons are wasted in heat radiation ami other losses, according to 'mi expert on fuel economy. In 1910 tho amount of coal mined hi the world was about 1,300,000,000 tons, and it was improbable, that' anything like 5 per cent, was ever , turned into actual useful work.

Whale fn,t is being used iir Scandinavia for the manufacture of margarine. In Denmark whale fat has been in uso ever sinco 19U, but in Norway it has not been necessary until recently to use this substitute for other fat.