LIQUOR FOR YOUTHS
MAGISTRATE SURPRISED A confict of opinion in the Stratford court on the amount cf liquor required to make two youths drunk was the cause of some amusement. Mr. S. Macalister, counsel for the licensee and barman of a hotel, against whom charges of supplying minors were made, said J.e did not know how the youths concerned, boys of 18, could have got drunk on two beers and half a bottle of whisky. Mr. W. H. Woodward, S.M., expressing surprise at the statement, said he considered it sufficient. Mr. Macalister replied that it would not have been enough when lie was a boy. “Then your experience must have been different from mine,” Mr. Woodward declared
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20068, 14 October 1939, Page 6
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117LIQUOR FOR YOUTHS Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20068, 14 October 1939, Page 6
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