"DELAYED ACTION"
NEW ZEALAND CIDER
The properties of the New Zealand cider came in for some comment in the Magistrate's Court today, when Angelo Alexatos, a restaurant proprietor, appeared before Mr. J. H. Luxford, S.M., and pleaded guilty to a charge of unlicensed sale of liquor. It was stated by Sub-Inspector L. Capp that police had purchased champagne cider containing 24.5 per cent, proof spirit, at Alexatos's restaurant. They paid 5s for a bottle.
"We don't look upon the defendant as a sly-grog seller in the ordinary common sense," said Sub-Inspector Capp. "The case is brought more as a warning. The police are quite satisfied that he was selling this overproof cider actually believing it was ordinary cider."
Mr. G. C. Kent, counsel for Alexatos, said that the defendant did not know that the cider contained such an alcohol content, and it was supplied to him as an ordinary beverage, along with other drinks.
"New Zealand ciders are such that many people can make mistakes, thinking they are drinking innocuous drink, and finding, when they get outside, that they have been drinking something very potent," said the Magistrate, who said that the case was different from the ordinary sly-grog offence.
A fine of £2 and costs was imposed
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 120, 23 May 1941, Page 9
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208"DELAYED ACTION" Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 120, 23 May 1941, Page 9
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